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I was wondering if there was a way to emulate the keyboard to press some keys in a batch file?

Oh yeah, and one more thing:
Can I hide the 'enter a or b' text?
Edit:
Nevermind, I found out how!

Ah, okay, thank you very much, that's very helpful!

Thank you for that command index link, it's very helpful. I was looking for something like that on the site.
But can I have it so that the input has more than one letter in it? That's what I was looking for.

Is there a command like this? Where if, the batch requests some text, and if it matches the text it requested, then it proceeds?

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