Hi there. I'm sort of a charity case here. I am doing my third year degree year at Uni. I am surprised I've made it this far as I am not very smart and It takes me a while to get the hang of things, especially as computing is so full of logic and complex. I have been doing OK up to now. I managed to study hard enough for a few exams thrown at me, I've started my 5000 word report, but then all of a sudden I've been hit with the task of making a Command Prompt (.bat) batch file. It must meet a certain criteria, one of them criterias is that it uses the CHOICE command. I do not have the choice.exe on my machine. I cannot locate it. I downloaded a version of it and it wont run properly. I have such a terrible time trying to get my batch file working, not only because I do not if the choice.exe is right or not, but I struggle terribly with any sort of computer syntax. Everytime I try and run the example batch files he showed us, it jumps to error level 1, and there it goes crazy and crashes because theres something wrong with the coding (again, maybe because my choice.exe isnt correct?) Shouldnt the right choice.exe wait for user input instead of asking the user to enter something, then jumping to error level 1 all of a sudden. What I need help is with is if someone can send me in an email the choice.exe so I can put it in my windows directory. I know a lot of you don't need to help me, you's are probably very good programmers, and I cannot even barley grasp the concept of "ECHO" but programming of any sort is a weakness of mine and I just can't get the hang of it. We were told you get the choice.exe off the uni server a few weeks ago but I'll have to be honest here. I didn't hear him say that. It was only yesterday at the end of the class he said the deadline was Friday and we needed choice.exe, by then It was too late for me to get the exe file. I will even pay whoever wants to help me out some money on PayPal or something. I just don't want to fail because of this. I need the CHOICE.EXE and maybe someone to look at my code (which will be completely errorful and won't run) but at least point me in the direction of what's incorrect about it. As long as I've included some of the key points for it, I can still get a minimum pass. Whats required for this batch file is;

At Least 2 Command Parameters
Linked to CHOICE (GOTO Label included)
No Switches
With Time out and default choice
Linked With a Batch File created on the Fly (>.>>)
At least 2 meaningful Entries (echo and dir do not count)

My idea was making it on a movie thing, where it searches for movies released last year, the year before, then 3 years ago, and you can also create a batch file which will list all movies. How I am going to do that, I do not know. Like I said. It won't run but maybe if he sees that I tried. I realise I have gotten myself into this mess, and now I am trying to get out of it, But I really can't without someones help. Sorry for the long post

Echo Bye!

Okay, my ADD meds must be wearing off. You lost me at I managed to study hard enough...

Rewrite with what you need (and only what you need), or otherwise add a tl; dr section.

Need:

Choice.exe - So that I can meet the criteria of this batch file that requests a CHOICE and GOTO is used

And optionally, I need someone to look over my coding later in the day when I do it, and give me some ideas as to where I've went wrong.

Need: Choice.exe
Why would you want that PoS? Microsoft stopped putting it in their OS'es with WinME (only to re-add it in Win2K3). I recommend using Microsoft's current batch input command, SET /P.

If you're still determined to get CHOICE, you can find it in the WinNT 3.5 Resource Kit. The installer doesn't work anymore, though, so you'll have to dig it out yourself.

The commands to do that are (from the same directory you saved the above download):
i386 -e choice.ex_
expand choice.ex_ choice.exe

I need someone to look over my coding later in the day when I do it
Well, that's what this forum is for.

ok thank you. I managed to get CHOICE. I have nearly finished I just need one last thing. I asked the question in a new post, it's omitting certain text (in this case, numbers and parenthesis) when doing findstr