Windows

With each new versions of Windows starting with Windows 95, we have been loosing DOS commands and functions.

The choice command is not available in Windows 2000.

Goto should work though.

Microsoft articles:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/225746

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows2000/en/advanced/help/ntcmds.htm

Chas

:: I modified this file to open Notepad.exe as an example.
:: Cut Below and rename the file to menu.bat
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@ECHO OFF
CLS
:LOOP
:: ECHO A. Menu item A
ECHO A. NOTEPAD
ECHO B. Menu item B
ECHO C. Menu item C
ECHO Q. Quit
:: SET /P prompts for input and sets the variable
:: to whatever the user types
SET Choice=
SET /P Choice=Type the letter and press Enter:
:: The syntax in the next line extracts the substring
:: starting at 0 (the beginning) and 1 character long
IF NOT '%Choice%'=='' SET Choice=%Choice:~0,1%
ECHO.
:: /I makes the IF comparison case-insensitive
IF /I '%Choice%'=='A' GOTO NOTEPAD
IF /I '%Choice%'=='B' GOTO ItemB
IF /I '%Choice%'=='C' GOTO ItemC
IF /I '%Choice%'=='Q' GOTO End
ECHO "%Choice%" is not valid. Please try again.
ECHO.
GOTO Loop
:NOTEPAD
:: ECHO Insert commands for Item A.
C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE
GOTO Again
:ItemB
ECHO Insert commands for Item B.
GOTO Again
:ItemC
ECHO Insert commands for Item C.
GOTO Again
:Again
PAUSE
CLS
GOTO Loop
:End