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Conditional Processing in Login Script

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by harryg

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In the NT 4.0 help for the IF statement, MS indicates that it is possible in a batch statement to determine whether a user typed a Y or N and use a goto statement to direct the processing to a paragraph based upon the errorlevel generated. However, I don't understand how to implement this in a login script. Can someone explain this more clearly than the documentation, including a short example? Or does someone know of another way to do what I want to do? Thanks.

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by harryg

Doesn't explain how I can prompt a user to enter Y or N and then use this answer to direct the batch file to a paragraph. That's the information I need. But thanks for the link.

by beermonster

What the nt4 help file is referring to is choice.exe from the reskit, get a copy and run it using choice /? and you'll see the syntax. BTW much to my delight i see that in win2k this has been icorporated into the set command as set /P : )

by nichomach

You may have already been advised of this, but I still reckon the most elegant way of handling login scripts in NT is via Kixtart, available (free, with sample scripts) at http://netnet.net/~swilson/kix/. Allows mapping by groups, registry editing,and I think the sort of thing you're after would be served well by the GET command, which'll get a single character and store it as a variable, or GETS which'll store a string of characters that the user types until they hit "Enter".

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