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Date:	Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:04:43 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
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Peter wrote:

> I need an ASK command that I can use in a non-REXX command file.
>
> ASK (or some similar name) typically has a syntax like:
>
> ASK CHOICES "Message"
>
> and the program displays "Message" on the screen and then waits for the
> user to enter one of the characters in CHOICES. The entered character's
> position in the CHOICES string becomes the Return Code (ERRORLEVEL)
> returned by the ASK.exe program.
>
> For example,
>
> ASK YNQ "Answer Y(es) or N(o), Q to Quit"
>
> would display this on the screen:
>
> Answer Y(es) or N(o), Q to Quit _
>
> and the user may enter Y, N or Q resulting in a Return Code of 1, 2 or
> 3.
>
> I found ASKIT on Hobbes but it requires two of the screen lines in a
> command line window -- one for the message and one for the response --
> and I'd much prefer to have a single-line solution.
>
> Anybody know where I can find such a program?

There was a basic ASK like this packaged with most versions of the Norton Utilities. (Of
course, those are DOS util.s)
I still have ver. 4.5 and ver. 8 (maybe the last version ? -- anyway, it spanned the
transition to late Win 3.x), somewhere at home, which I could probably locate for you.
Another possibility: the Graham Util.s are closely patterned after the old Norton set, so
maybe he included one of these ? I'm not where I can check this out right now . . . .

Jordan

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