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Batch to prompt user for input
Name: Michael Date: March 3, 2000 at 10:19:58 Pacific
Comment:
Hello,
I've been looking around on the web, to little avail. My need is to have a batch file prompt the user for input (which will be a date in the format of YYYYMMDD), and put the response in a variable, so I can create a directory and do other stuff. I've checked help files, and read tons of posts in the group, and followed links to sites, but still no answer found. I am starting to think that this is not possible in pure batch (without any external utils). C an someone help with this? Thanks, Michael
Name: bundat Date: March 5, 2000 at 09:56:17 Pacific
Reply:
you can't do that in pure batch. you need some other helper files to achive it. goto garbo.uwasa.fi and d/l timo salmi's tsbat##.zip batch files techniques.
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Response Number 2
Name: Michael Date: March 6, 2000 at 09:05:50 Pacific
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