bat programing

Ok my question is about how to take user input and use it for the program.
I am makeing a menu for a dos boot disk.

Here is a example of what I am trying to do.

Code:

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@echo off
:begin
echo Welcome to chuckie's boot disk
Echo.
echo 1. Fdisk        2. Clean1k    3. Delpart    4. Format    5. fdisk
Echo.
echo 6. findram    7. move        8. chkdisk    9. debug    10. edit
Echo.
echo 11. scandisk 12.sys        13. mscdex 14. ext        15. attrib
Echo.
echo 16. restart    17. extract 18. help

echo Select What Program You Would Like To Run..
(user input) %1

cls

IF %1==1
Fdisk

IF %1==2
Clean1k

IF %1==3
Delpart

ETC...

IF %1==17
help.bat

goto error
REM This is for if the enter a incorrect number
:error
You did not enter a correct number. Hit any key to try agin
pause
cls
goto begin

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Also is there a way to allow pass commands to the program?

Example:
At user promt
Be able to do like
4 c: /y
format c: /y


Thank you for any help you can give..

akachuckie,

What you need is a reference to batch file programming. Can be found here:
http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm

Basically, look up the CHOICE command, it will give you what you need.

Passing arguments is done like this:

test.bat arg1 arg2

in your batch file, arg1 is %1, arg2 is %2, and so on...

Hope this helps,
-ik

Yea thought about the Choice Command. But I really don't have room on the disk for it. It is a external command.

Is there any other way to do it?

Well, I guess you could write a small C program that could do the same... I don't know of any other ways using batch files. Try googling it, I know as much as you do at this point...

I did find this. But all I can do is ECHO %INPUT%

Code:

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@echo off
echo BATCH_INPUT___hgQX-PPP_XPPP E#HH0E50EG0Ef0Ehs>myinput.com
echo myinput.bat hoAX5@@PZYh@xX5@D3!r/P[WX,b,-PZh>>myinput.com
echo X3!X2ErP,{,{PYX4=0ErWX,j,-PZh@@X3!=set input>>myinput.com
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO.
echo INPUT:

myinput.com
call myinput.bat
echo.
echo.
del myinput.com
del myinput.bat
ECHO %INPUT%

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Any idea's?

I also tryed if staments and they did not work either.

hm...


what would dos call the variable named in c language?

It's not exactly easy, but it can be done. I don't have the time to thoroughly check it out right now, but something like this should help you.