Batfile

[Charmed Rulez]

Does anyone of you know where i can find some good sites about batfiles ?

[JCHostingAdmin]

http://www.google.com <-- Search there for Batfile sites or just "BatFiles".

[Tedob1]

dan gookin....goodkin, whatever, the guy who writes the dummys books, wrote a book named, oddly enough, 'batchfiles' if you can get your hands on that, ohhh man!

But in the mean time their are a few tuts here on ao

And goole turns up some great returns:

http://www.ericphelps.com/batch/

what do you want to do with them?

[DBEAUCHAMP]

If you search the web, you'll find a lot of them ! One that I like is more a list and explanation about old DOS 7 commands. That could help you find out what to use to create what you need.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/rhwatson/dos7/

If you tell us what you need with might as well try to give you some hints !

[Charmed Rulez]

I want to try and make a menu, I found one here on AO but that didn’t work under windows xp

[avdven]

Charmed Rulez, what do you need the menu for? I would go out and spend a little time learning VB or some other Visual programming language and make a Win32-based menu rather than an old DOS batch file. If you really need to make a batch menu, let me know and I can help you out. I grew up working on DOS 3.0 and Windows 3.0 (ended at DOS 6.2 and Wfw 3.11 before moving to a Win32 environemnt) and I used to write batch files all of the time. I still have all of my old DOS manuals as well, with instructions on every DOS command available back then.

AJ

[cwk9]

Don't forget there are programs that will convert batch files to com or exe files. Always a good idea if you don't want people to look at the code or edit it.

[jethro]

I posted a tutorial on batfiles here ages ago, you might find something in that.
As regards the menu thing, I don't know about XP, but in a version of 2000 (I think) I was on, the ``choice" command doesn't work.

[Charmed Rulez]

Its just for fun I want to make a menu, year its the choice command that doesn’t work under windows xp, do you know what I can use instead of that command ?

[jethro]

Originally posted here by Charmed Rulez
Its just for fun I want to make a menu, year its the choice command that doesn’t work under windows xp, do you know what I can use instead of that command ?

Yeah, I guess you could write a CHOICE program yourself, from a different language, or you could use the FC command to compare NUL and CON, if you get my meaning, to get the input.

You'll be able to find a batfile that does this at this location:

http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ <--- Search around a bit.