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Thanks....<br />
<br />
By piping choice into nul, then my screen output was not messed up by choice.. &nbsp;:-)<br />
<br />
see my snippet below<br />

<pre><code id="code-50530">rem %utilDir%\sleep 60
choice /c yk /d y /t 2 /n &gt; nul
if %errorlevel% EQU 60 set ctr2=%sleep%
%utilDir%\echo .\c
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Thanks....

By piping choice into nul, then my screen output was not messed up by choice..  :-)

see my snippet below


rem %utilDir%\sleep 60
choice /c yk /d y /t 2 /n > nul
if %errorlevel% EQU 60 set ctr2=%sleep%
%utilDir%\echo .\c


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Hi<br />
<br />
I have a dos batch file that processes some commands every 20 mins. &nbsp;I would like to add the option of a 'hot key' that would abort the sleep command and process the commands again.<br />
<br />
for example <br />
echo Press r to run now<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
<br />
Rob<br />

<pre><code id="code-50496">set sleep 20
:again 
do some stuff here 
set msg=   Sleeping for %sleep% Mins
   echo %msg%
call :slepLoop 
goto again  
:slepLoop
REM echo that supports surpress line feed downloaded from 
REM http://www.paulsadowski.com/WSH/cmdprogs.htm 
%utilDir%\sleep 60
%utilDir%\echo .\c 
set /a ctr2=ctr2+1
if %ctr2% GEQ %sleep% goto loopEnd
goto slepLoop 
:loopEnd
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Hi

I have a dos batch file that processes some commands every 20 mins.  I would like to add the option of a 'hot key' that would abort the sleep command and process the commands again.

for example 
echo Press r to run now

Thanks

Rob

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