niklas@appli.se (Niklas Hallqvist) (06/27/91)
Hello! I'm not a Windows (or even DOS) user, but rather a Unix programmer. One of our customers use PC's as networked terminals to the Unix-server we have delivered. The PC's run Windows 3. On the PC's there are communication facilities of various kinds, to connect to external computers. They transfer invoices and such on these lines, and the protocols are specific for each external site, and are only available on PC's. We create the files on the Unix Server, for later transfer to the PC's and then further on. My problem is: When a PC user wants to get a file from the server to transfer to their partners, they must enter a jungle of different programs, like ftp and such, and they are not experienced computer users. So I thought I'd write a batch file, just asking the user of the invoice number, and then proceed to do all the hairy work. Easy as pie! But then I discovered there's no READ (Bourne Shell like) command in DOS. So I searched SIMTEL for one, and sure as hell, I found it. But... that READ command reads a line into a environment variable in the original shell, not the one which is active in the Window the .BAT is run from, so.. what to do? Well here I am, wanting a simple utility who can read in a line, either from a "real" window, or in a DOS Window, and feed this string into either a .BAT-file as a parameter, or into an environment variable. Any suggestions are welcome. And please mail me, as I don't read this group at all. Niklas -- Niklas Hallqvist Phone: +46-(0)31-40 75 00 Applitron Datasystem Fax: +46-(0)31-83 39 50 Molndalsvagen 95 Email: niklas@appli.se S-412 63 GOTEBORG, Sweden mcsun!sunic!chalmers!appli!niklas