Where from to find command-lines "INPUT.EXE" & "SLEEP.EXE" ?

In MS-DOS 7.1, it is missing 2 important command-lines for me, to use in my
batch programmings :
- INPUT.EXE : it should prompt for the user to type from his keyboard a 32
characters line of text, and then press [ENTER], and then the line text
should be entered into an environment variable, passed as a parameter to
"INPUT.EXE", without any hassle, like writing the text on a temporary file I
dont know where. Where to find that ?
- SLEEP.EXE : it should pause the execution of the batch file, for a given
duration, given as a parameter, for example, in miliseconds, or even in
seconds, and it should be accurate, whatever is the speed of the precessor
(very important to be valid). Where to find that ?
By the way, 5 years ago, there was a site like www.cdrom.com, where were
still available all the DOS freewares and sharewares and tools and utilities
as the biggest collection in the world, but now, it seems that collection is
no more on the Net !
Could you tell me what URL to use to find again such a big collection of
only DOS freewares, sharewares, tools, utilities, to use for downloading, or
for ordering CD-ROMS Compilations from all the Collection available ?
Thanks a lot !
Frederic Laroche.

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:48:01 -0800, "bestofcomputer"
put finger to keyboard and
composed:

In MS-DOS 7.1, it is missing 2 important command-lines for me, to use in my
batch programmings :
- INPUT.EXE : it should prompt for the user to type from his keyboard a 32
characters line of text, and then press [ENTER], and then the line text
should be entered into an environment variable, passed as a parameter to
"INPUT.EXE", without any hassle, like writing the text on a temporary file I
dont know where. Where to find that ?
- SLEEP.EXE : it should pause the execution of the batch file, for a given
duration, given as a parameter, for example, in miliseconds, or even in
seconds, and it should be accurate, whatever is the speed of the precessor
(very important to be valid). Where to find that ?
By the way, 5 years ago, there was a site like www.cdrom.com, where were
still available all the DOS freewares and sharewares and tools and utilities
as the biggest collection in the world, but now, it seems that collection is
no more on the Net !
Could you tell me what URL to use to find again such a big collection of
only DOS freewares, sharewares, tools, utilities, to use for downloading, or
for ordering CD-ROMS Compilations from all the Collection available ?
Thanks a lot !
Frederic Laroche.

Sleep.exe is part of the Win98 Resource Kit. It should be available
here, although I can't be sure because the site is down at present:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/Tec...s/win98/reskit

Here are two other ways to implement a 10 sec wait, but they rely on
certain tricks:

ping -n 10 127.0.0.1 nul
rem | choice /n /t:y,10 nul

Choice.exe is included in the Reskit, although it is also available as
a component of DOS 6.22.

- Franc Zabkar
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Hi.
Thank you for SLEEP.EXE : it is perfect.
But CHOICE.EXE behaves exactly the same as the old CHOICE.COM.
I dont see any difference between them !
And it is doing what I want to do :
it is asking to press a key, among a selected number of choices of keys.
But it never collect from the user any text typed by him on the keyboard !
I need an INPUT.EXE that could collect a full line of text typed by the
user, and then this text will be assigned to a envireonment variable of which
name would be as a parameter of INPUT.EXE.
So, please, try again to help me about that command, because DOS has always
suffered of bad I/O commands, and I desperatly need a tool like that.
Anyone interested into programming such a DOS tool ?
Maybe everybody has shifted to visual studio 2005, and nobody cares no more
for programming a very nice and cool DOS tool ?
Where can I find that kind of support ?
Please help me !
Thanks.
Frederic Laroche.



"Franc Zabkar" wrote:

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:48:01 -0800, "bestofcomputer"
put finger to keyboard and
composed:

In MS-DOS 7.1, it is missing 2 important command-lines for me, to use in my
batch programmings :
- INPUT.EXE : it should prompt for the user to type from his keyboard a 32
characters line of text, and then press [ENTER], and then the line text
should be entered into an environment variable, passed as a parameter to
"INPUT.EXE", without any hassle, like writing the text on a temporary file I
dont know where. Where to find that ?
- SLEEP.EXE : it should pause the execution of the batch file, for a given
duration, given as a parameter, for example, in miliseconds, or even in
seconds, and it should be accurate, whatever is the speed of the precessor
(very important to be valid). Where to find that ?
By the way, 5 years ago, there was a site like www.cdrom.com, where were
still available all the DOS freewares and sharewares and tools and utilities
as the biggest collection in the world, but now, it seems that collection is
no more on the Net !
Could you tell me what URL to use to find again such a big collection of
only DOS freewares, sharewares, tools, utilities, to use for downloading, or
for ordering CD-ROMS Compilations from all the Collection available ?
Thanks a lot !
Frederic Laroche.

Sleep.exe is part of the Win98 Resource Kit. It should be available
here, although I can't be sure because the site is down at present:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/Tec...s/win98/reskit

Here are two other ways to implement a 10 sec wait, but they rely on
certain tricks:

ping -n 10 127.0.0.1 nul
rem | choice /n /t:y,10 nul

Choice.exe is included in the Reskit, although it is also available as
a component of DOS 6.22.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

write it in VBScript
works in all windows versions
similar structure to DOS batch programming
text input
validation
redirection
external program calls and parameter passing all work out of the box

examples takes input text and changes the default title bar in IE from
dougKnox's web site
______cut_
'chgietitle.vbs - Change Title bar text in IE5
'or restores to default value of Microsoft Internet Explorer
'© Doug Knox - rev 12/05/99

Option Explicit

'Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, p1, t, cn, Caption

'set variables and Shell
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title"
p1 = "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title"
t = "Change IE Title Bar Text"
Caption = "Would you like to use the default" & vbCR
Caption = Caption & "value of Microsoft Internet Explorer?"
'This section reads the current value if any and puts it in an Input Box
'where you may change it as you like for Internet Explorer
'adds/changes keys in HKCU
MyBox = MsgBox(Caption, 4131, t)

If MyBox = vbCancel Then
WScript.Quit
ElseIf MyBox = vbNo Then
On Error Resume Next
n = WSHShell.RegRead(p)
On Error Goto 0
cn = InputBox("Type new Title Text and click OK", t, n)
If cn "" then
WSHShell.RegWrite p, cn
WSHShell.RegWrite p1, cn
End If
ElseIf MyBox = vbYes Then
WSHShell.RegDelete p
WSHShell.RegDelete p1
End If
______________________________________
you may very much find the script to do what you want is already written.,
except for a blank for you to put the program name

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"bestofcomputer" wrote in message
...
In MS-DOS 7.1, it is missing 2 important command-lines for me, to use in
my
batch programmings :
- INPUT.EXE : it should prompt for the user to type from his keyboard a 32
characters line of text, and then press [ENTER], and then the line text
should be entered into an environment variable, passed as a parameter to
"INPUT.EXE", without any hassle, like writing the text on a temporary file
I
dont know where. Where to find that ?
- SLEEP.EXE : it should pause the execution of the batch file, for a given
duration, given as a parameter, for example, in miliseconds, or even in
seconds, and it should be accurate, whatever is the speed of the precessor
(very important to be valid). Where to find that ?
By the way, 5 years ago, there was a site like www.cdrom.com, where were
still available all the DOS freewares and sharewares and tools and
utilities
as the biggest collection in the world, but now, it seems that collection
is
no more on the Net !
Could you tell me what URL to use to find again such a big collection of
only DOS freewares, sharewares, tools, utilities, to use for downloading,
or
for ordering CD-ROMS Compilations from all the Collection available ?
Thanks a lot !
Frederic Laroche.

or try this one that takes a text input and then opens a web search
engine(sort of) with the text
____Cut sillyq.vbs_____
Option Explicit
Dim objShell,A,B,C
A=""
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
A=InputBox("Enter Your query Now. I will try to find an answer","Ask Rob
Silly Questions")
IF not a="" then
B=split(A," ")
C=Join(B,"+")
objShell.Run "http://www.just****inggoogleit.com/search?query=" & CHR(34) &
C & Chr(34)
Else
MsgBox " No Question ?? "+vbcrlf+" OK I cant help then "+vbcrlf+" Send this
file Sillyq.vbs to your friends.",vbOKOnly + vbInformation, "Shameless arent
I"
end if
____end Cut____
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spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
_
"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
write it in VBScript
works in all windows versions
similar structure to DOS batch programming
text input
validation
redirection
external program calls and parameter passing all work out of the box

examples takes input text and changes the default title bar in IE from
dougKnox's web site
______cut_
'chgietitle.vbs - Change Title bar text in IE5
'or restores to default value of Microsoft Internet Explorer
'© Doug Knox - rev 12/05/99

Option Explicit

'Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, p1, t, cn, Caption

'set variables and Shell
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title"
p1 = "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title"
t = "Change IE Title Bar Text"
Caption = "Would you like to use the default" & vbCR
Caption = Caption & "value of Microsoft Internet Explorer?"
'This section reads the current value if any and puts it in an Input Box
'where you may change it as you like for Internet Explorer
'adds/changes keys in HKCU
MyBox = MsgBox(Caption, 4131, t)

If MyBox = vbCancel Then
WScript.Quit
ElseIf MyBox = vbNo Then
On Error Resume Next
n = WSHShell.RegRead(p)
On Error Goto 0
cn = InputBox("Type new Title Text and click OK", t, n)
If cn "" then
WSHShell.RegWrite p, cn
WSHShell.RegWrite p1, cn
End If
ElseIf MyBox = vbYes Then
WSHShell.RegDelete p
WSHShell.RegDelete p1
End If
______________________________________
you may very much find the script to do what you want is already written.,
except for a blank for you to put the program name

--
-
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
_
"bestofcomputer" wrote in
message
...
In MS-DOS 7.1, it is missing 2 important command-lines for me, to use in
my
batch programmings :
- INPUT.EXE : it should prompt for the user to type from his keyboard a
32
characters line of text, and then press [ENTER], and then the line text
should be entered into an environment variable, passed as a parameter to
"INPUT.EXE", without any hassle, like writing the text on a temporary
file
I
dont know where. Where to find that ?
- SLEEP.EXE : it should pause the execution of the batch file, for a
given
duration, given as a parameter, for example, in miliseconds, or even in
seconds, and it should be accurate, whatever is the speed of the
precessor
(very important to be valid). Where to find that ?
By the way, 5 years ago, there was a site like www.cdrom.com, where were
still available all the DOS freewares and sharewares and tools and
utilities
as the biggest collection in the world, but now, it seems that
collection
is
no more on the Net !
Could you tell me what URL to use to find again such a big collection of
only DOS freewares, sharewares, tools, utilities, to use for
downloading,
or
for ordering CD-ROMS Compilations from all the Collection available ?
Thanks a lot !
Frederic Laroche.

some of the text lines wrapped in the prior post, I keep forgetting about
that,

_
"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
or try this one that takes a text input and then opens a web search
engine(sort of) with the text
____Cut sillyq.vbs_____

Option Explicit

Dim objShell,A,B,C

A=""

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

A=InputBox("Enter Your query Now. I will try to find an answer","Ask Rob
Silly Questions")

IF not a="" then

B=split(A," ")

C=Join(B,"+")

objShell.Run "http://www.just****inggoogleit.com/search?query=" & CHR(34) &
C & Chr(34)

Else

MsgBox " No Question ?? "+vbcrlf+" OK I cant help then "+vbcrlf+" Send this
file Sillyq.vbs to your friends.",vbOKOnly + vbInformation, "Shameless
arent I"

end if

____end Cut____

its surprising how few really silly email questions arrive at the helpdesk
since each terminal now has a 'ask silly questions link' on it,
the users get quick answers, and a giggle,
answers often include the
'disabled by administrator, if you require access to this function
please contact your supervisor, ,' 401 page.
makes group and user permissions real easy to administer, all the
permissions are set from this workstation
Got to love RSP time

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:08:02 -0800, "bestofcomputer"
put finger to keyboard and
composed:

Hi.
Thank you for SLEEP.EXE : it is perfect.
But CHOICE.EXE behaves exactly the same as the old CHOICE.COM.
I dont see any difference between them !

Yes, that was a serious brain fart. I was about to post a correction
to that effect but you beat me to it. I get confused because not all
Win9x DOS commands are installed by default. The remainder are in the
Oldmsdos directory on the Win9x CD.

And it is doing what I want to do :
it is asking to press a key, among a selected number of choices of keys.
But it never collect from the user any text typed by him on the keyboard !

The Choice command incorporates a user defined timeout in the event
that it receives no input. The following trick takes advantage of this
featu

rem | choice /n /t:y,10 nul

The Rem command pipes its null output to Choice, thus ensuring that
Choice receives no input, which in turn ensures that Choice times out
for the specified time. Therefore, in this particular case, Choice
provides a "sleep" function, not an input function.

I need an INPUT.EXE that could collect a full line of text typed by the
user, and then this text will be assigned to a envireonment variable of which
name would be as a parameter of INPUT.EXE.

I suggest you ask this question at alt.msdos.batch. You are guaranteed
to get an answer there. I think Benny Pedersen has devised an input
routine using pure batch commands, ie one without an external utility.

So, please, try again to help me about that command, ...

My answer did not attempt to provide a solution for your input
problem. Sorry for the confusion.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
some of the text lines wrapped in the prior post, I keep forgetting about
that,

_
"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
or try this one that takes a text input and then opens a web search
engine(sort of) with the text
____Cut sillyq.vbs_____

Option Explicit

Dim objShell,A,B,C

A=""

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

A=InputBox("Enter Your query Now. I will try to find an answer","Ask Rob
Silly Questions")

IF not a="" then

B=split(A," ")

C=Join(B,"+")

objShell.Run "http://www.just****inggoogleit.com/search?query=" & CHR(34)
&
C & Chr(34)

Else

MsgBox " No Question ?? "+vbcrlf+" OK I cant help then "+vbcrlf+" Send
this
file Sillyq.vbs to your friends.",vbOKOnly + vbInformation, "Shameless
arent I"

end if

____end Cut____

its surprising how few really silly email questions arrive at the helpdesk
since each terminal now has a 'ask silly questions link' on it,
the users get quick answers, and a giggle,
answers often include the
'disabled by administrator, if you require access to this function
please contact your supervisor, ,' 401 page.
makes group and user permissions real easy to administer, all the
permissions are set from this workstation
Got to love RSP time



look here , there is a downloadable "input" file that does what i think you
are looking for (scroll down)
http://www.bookcase.com/library/soft...til.batch.html

Thank all of you guys for your posts.
But still I dont find my INPUT.EXE !
The forum : alt.msdos.batch
is maybe good, but what is the URL to type to access to it ?
Please give me a clue ?
The link : www.bookcase.com
is unaccessible, so no possible to get anything from there !
Please give me another clue ?
And about the VB Scripts : very good job, I appreciate a lot !
But excuse me :
How am I supposed to execute a VB script under a DOS Boot only ? Because
this is my main Point, and you didnt get it, it seems...
I am sorry, but I need more help, still !
Thanks anyway.
Bye.
Frederic Laroche.



"Haggis" wrote:


"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
some of the text lines wrapped in the prior post, I keep forgetting about
that,

_
"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
or try this one that takes a text input and then opens a web search
engine(sort of) with the text
____Cut sillyq.vbs_____

Option Explicit

Dim objShell,A,B,C

A=""

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

A=InputBox("Enter Your query Now. I will try to find an answer","Ask Rob
Silly Questions")

IF not a="" then

B=split(A," ")

C=Join(B,"+")

objShell.Run "http://www.just****inggoogleit.com/search?query=" & CHR(34)
&
C & Chr(34)

Else

MsgBox " No Question ?? "+vbcrlf+" OK I cant help then "+vbcrlf+" Send
this
file Sillyq.vbs to your friends.",vbOKOnly + vbInformation, "Shameless
arent I"

end if

____end Cut____

its surprising how few really silly email questions arrive at the helpdesk
since each terminal now has a 'ask silly questions link' on it,
the users get quick answers, and a giggle,
answers often include the
'disabled by administrator, if you require access to this function
please contact your supervisor, ,' 401 page.
makes group and user permissions real easy to administer, all the
permissions are set from this workstation
Got to love RSP time



look here , there is a downloadable "input" file that does what i think you
are looking for (scroll down)
http://www.bookcase.com/library/soft...til.batch.html

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:41:02 -0800, "bestofcomputer"
put finger to keyboard and
composed:

Thank all of you guys for your posts.
But still I dont find my INPUT.EXE !
The forum : alt.msdos.batch
is maybe good, but what is the URL to type to access to it ?
Please give me a clue ?
The link : www.bookcase.com
is unaccessible,

No problem here.

so no possible to get anything from there !
Please give me another clue ?

From bookcase.com:

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/m...tl/input10.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/m...tl/sleep25.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/m...chutl/wait.zip

And about the VB Scripts : very good job, I appreciate a lot !
But excuse me :
How am I supposed to execute a VB script under a DOS Boot only ? Because
this is my main Point, and you didnt get it, it seems...
I am sorry, but I need more help, still !
Thanks anyway.
Bye.
Frederic Laroche.

FYI, the sleep.exe utility I referred to in an earlier post will only
run in a Windows DOS box, not in real DOS mode. Ping.exe is also
restricted to a DOS box. The "rem | choice" trick will work in DOS,
though.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.