keyboard input when running batch file

Have you tried 'choice' from the Resource kit

Allen

"Choice" is ok if you only want one character input but for strings I use ask.exe.
If you cant find it on the internet I can mail you a copy. It prompts for a entry and then sets an environment variable to the entered value. e.g.

ask testvar What server do you want to connect to?
would ask "What server do you want to connect to?" and wait for a servername to be entered. The environment variable testvar is then set to the input. This can be used as any other environment variable such as:net use f: \\%testvar%\c$

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