I haven't written a batch file since ADAM was a boy, but a situation has come upwhere I think one is needed. we use a SIMPLE HTML file as a signature file for our email system (Lotus Notes) the bosses want all users to have a sig file, and for it to be consistent. Not many users can code in HTML, and so it is shaping up that I will need to do a file for each of them. Rather than do this I thought a quick batch file that asks the users name, section, phone number, etc, then outputs the HTML file. But I can't find how I ask the user for input. I am SURE it is possible, and I am sure it is easy, but I just can't find a reference. everything I find only allows simple input, like CHOICE.

Can anybody either tell me or point me to a resource that does?

ThanksBatch is poor when it comes to user input unless predetermined (list) of choices for Choice command ( if this do that ).

a VB Script would give you what you want.Maybe someone here more savy in vbscripting can give you a example of how to ask for input and output that to a file to compose the html file out of the vbscriptCouldn't SET/P be used as in:

SET/P username=Please enter your name:
cls
SET/P section=Please enter your section:
cls
SET/P phone#=Please enter your phone#:
cls
echo %username% %section% %phone#% > %temp%userinfo.txt

Sorry, I'm not up to HTML coding, leave that to you..

Hope this helps & welcome to the forums.THANK you for the replies. Unfortunately not enough time for me to learn VBScript. I will try the set and see whether this works, I think it will.

Thanks again Code: [Select]@echo off


:start
cls
set username=
set section=
set phone#=

cls
SET/P username=Please enter your name:
cls
SET/P section=Please enter your section:
cls
SET/P phone#=Please enter your phone#:
cls
set /p correct=Was all this information correct(Y/N):
if /i %correct%==n goto start
if /i %correct%==y goto makefile


:makefile
echo <p> Username : %username% > info.html
echo Section : %section% >> info.html
echo phone# : %phone#% </p> >> info.html
msg * Done!
exit


I think that should do it. I'm not quite sure on the html though, that should make a standard
paragrah if I remember correctly. Thank you. I had got as far as the input part, but you hav also solved the output. That should work great.

Thank you againCode: [Select]set /p correct=Was all this information correct(Y/N):
if /i %correct%==n goto start
if /i %correct%==y goto makefile
what if user will press some other button ?
i would change that to:
Code: [Select]set /p correct=Was all this information correct(Y/N):
if /I '%correct%' equ 'y' goto makefile
goto start& echo the entered information on-screen before asking the question so that it can be checked...

Code: [Select]@echo off


:start
cls
set username=
set section=
set phone#=
set correct=

cls
SET/P username=Please enter your name:
echo ---------------------------------------------
SET/P section=Please enter your section:
echo ---------------------------------------------
SET/P phone#=Please enter your phone#:
echo ---------------------------------------------
set /p correct=Was all this information correct(Y/N):
if /i "%correct%"=="n" goto start
if /i "%correct%"=="y" goto makefile
goto start


:makefile
echo ^<p^> Username : %username% > info.html
echo Section : %section% >> info.html
echo phone# : %phone#% ^</p^> >> info.html
msg * Done!
exit

That's the improved version. Now it shows the information you typed so you can verify if it is correct. Quote

:makefile
echo <p> Username : %username% > info.html
echo Section : %section% >> info.html
echo phone# : %phone#% </p> >> info.html
msg * Done!
exit