This is for DOS and 4DOS. For Linux shells (Dash, Bash, Zsh, etc), see Shell scripting notes.

Programming > DOS / 4DOS >

(Batch file on Wikipedia)

• Batch files

• My git repository of scripts

  • DOS > scripts
  • 4DOS > scripts

• 2005-05-30 — Is it wrong to love batch file programming? Probably. I hope the skills are portable to Ruby. I’m going to kick so much butt when I get in gear. One day.

  • 2020-02-02 — Well they were sort of portable, but not enough.. I was never really that good.

Knowledge ∞

• Accepting Keyboard Input in Batch Files
• Batch file include external file for variables
• How can I change the editor used to edit batch/command files?
• https://www.robvanderwoude.com/userinput.php — has some batch programming stuff.. neato.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200214092204/https://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.php — some interesting dos methods for accepting user input

• robvanderwoude.com has stuff somewhere or other..

  • asking for user input
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20080929105017/http://www.robvanderwoude.com/userinput.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20060411090353if_/http://www.robvanderwoude.com:80/index.html

• https://www.horstmuc.de/

Software ∞

• Sleep – A tool for delaying in a batch file