Date:	Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:19:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Gregor J Jones <gjones AT bu DOT edu>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Timeout
In-Reply-To:	<199808050511.AAA06157@smtp1.mailsrvcs.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.4.00.9808051314570.382-100000@Med-Physio11.bu.edu>
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On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Marc D. Williams wrote:

 | The person uses NDOS as a command processor. Anyone know if it has
 | the same following features as 4DOS: DELAY, INPUT, INKEY?
 | 
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 | 
 | Do you know of a DrDos user's group I could ask the following question:
 | "how can a "switch" menu within the autoexec.bat be timed-out under
 | DrDos6"? A "timeout" period defined in the dconfig.sys does not seem to
 | apply.

Three times yes:

DOS version 6.22
NDOS, Norton Utilities version 8.0, Copyright 1993 by Symantec Corporation

c:\delay /?
Pause for a specified period of time.

DELAY [seconds]

  seconds  Number of seconds to pause.

DELAY by itself pauses processing for one second.

c:\input /?
Enter an environment variable from the standard input.

INPUT [/Wn] [text] %%varname

  /Wn  Wait: Timeout period (n is the number of seconds to
       wait for a key press).

All characters entered up to, but not including, the carriage
return stored in the variable.

c:\inkey /?
Get a single keystroke environment variable from standard input.

INKEY [/K"..."] [/Wn] [text] %%varname

  /Wn      Wait: Timeout period (n is the number of seconds
           to wait for a key press).
  /K"..."  Allowable Keystrokes: Enclose the list in double
           quotes.

An ASCII value from 1 to 255 is stored as a character. Extended
characters, such as function keys and cursor keys, are stored as
a string in decimal format with a leading @ (for example, the F1
function key is @59).

HTH

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Dr Gregor J Jones                         tel: 617-638-5336 (W)
Dept Physiology                                617-262-8205 (H)
Boston University Sch Med                 fax: 617-638-4273
Boston MA 02118                           mailto:gjones AT bu DOT edu

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