Question About Keyboard Input

[alleypuppy]

Hey guys,

Is it possible to add something similar to the "pause" command, but instead of being able to press any key to continue, the user must press "Enter" to continue? Or is there a way to quit the batch file by pressing "Esc" or some key combination other than "Ctrl+C"? Thanks for any help!

[Ed Dyreen]

CTRL+C, I believe this is the old BREAK is ON command.

I use choice to wait for keypress, this allows timeouts, I'm looking for an ANY key solution aswell...

[alleypuppy]

The ASCII Character Set defines ^C as being "End of Text", which I guess is the same as "goto :eof"

[Ed Dyreen]

☺
hey alley, can you test if choice accept ascii 13 as input ?
I believe that ascii 13 is the Carriage Return <ENTER> key.

You create this key like this...

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::--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%@Pre% $CR, &%@echon%use only with DelayedExpansion
::(
   for /f %%a in ('copy /Z "%~dpf0" nul') do set "$CR=%%a"
   ::
   %@nechon% This is erased!$CR! This Works   .
::)
%@Post% $CR use only with DelayedExpansion [OK]
::--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I can't test it now

This probably wont work

Set defines ^C as being "End of Text", which I guess is the same as "goto :eof"

It must be inserted as a literal or escaped character, just guessing...

It should be possible, I'm getting back to this...

[alleypuppy]

No it didn't seem to work.

[orange_batch]

You can program a routine that involves set /p to do this.

[scienceguru1.bat]

here might be the error in ed's code:
on time it says:

%@echon%

another time it says:

%@nechon%

fix either and it might work

~C~

[Ed Dyreen]

☺
@orange

%@echon%

another time it says:

%@nechon%

fix either and it might work

This time I agree

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set "@echon=echo("
set "@nechon=%@echon% &%@echon%"

I'm sorry for posting you incomplete code @alley

@orange

You can program a routine that involves set /p to do this.

So how would you code set /p so it resumes on any key, it won't support timouts though