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One small point now I`ve come to use this technique instead of CHOICE. Ideally I`d like a prompt under my menu, something like "Select an option: ", and have the cursor remain on the same line awaiting input, but using the XCOPY trick to capture the users selection. I`ve managed to approxi...

Squashman, thank you. I have both an XP and Windows 7 64-bit machine on my desk - it`s one of the only things that behaves differently, so far. I appreciate DosTips is mainly about XP (I assume it still is?). Others that have caught me out are: SET /P doesn`t support leading spaces in the prompt und...

I found this code on alt.msdos.batch.nt many years ago. I can see what it`s doing in simple 'mechanical' terms but can someone give me a fuller explanation of what "in.com" is, why it works, and the code that creates it? It seems to temporarily create a file that captures console input up ...

Thank you jeb, I don`t know why I didn`t figure that out myself during testing. I`ll try harder next time.

Hi all, As a long-time user of the CHOICE command I was impressed to find the XCOPY alternative on your forum: for /F "delims=" %%L in ('xcopy /L /w "%~f0" "%~f0" 2^>NUL') do ( if not defined key set "key=%%L" ) (It works nicely in Vista 32-bit BTW) When I tri...