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BATCH ENHANCER (or BE) (or BE.EXE,) is an applet or free-standing utility packaged with Norton Utilities (NU) to graphically enhance the presentation of batch files.Batch Enhancer allows the use of colours, square graphics, delays, beeps, more complex decision parameters, easier to create user-choice menus and other functions.
In MS-DOS, a batch file can be started from the command-line interface by typing its name, followed by any required parameters and pressing the ↵ Enter key. When DOS loads, the file AUTOEXEC.BAT, when present, is automatically executed, so any commands that need to be run to set up the DOS environment may be placed in this file.
Microsoft also provides a sleep resource kit tool for Windows which can be used in batch files or the command prompt to pause the execution and wait for some time. [10] Another native version is the timeout command which is part of current versions of Windows. [11]
Another important use of the echo command is to toggle echoing of commands on and off in batch files. Traditionally batch files begin with the @echo off statement. This says to the interpreter that echoing of commands should be off during the whole execution of the batch file, thus resulting in a "tidier" output (the @ symbol declares that this ...
When this command is called from the command line or a batch script, it will display the time and wait for the user to type a new time and press RETURN. Pressing RETURN without entering a new time will keep the current system time. The parameter '/T' will bypass asking the user to reset the time.
Changes made to the command line environment after SetLocal commands are local to the batch file. EndLocal command restores the previous settings. [17] The Call command allows subroutines within batch file. The Call command in COMMAND.COM only supports calling external batch files. File name parser extensions to the Set command are comparable ...
The batch size refers to the number of work units to be processed within one batch operation. Some examples are: The number of lines from a file to load into a database before committing the transaction. The number of messages to dequeue from a queue. The number of requests to send within one payload.
In computing, start is a command of the IBM OS/2, [1] Microsoft Windows [2] and ReactOS [3] command-line interpreter cmd.exe [4] (and some versions of COMMAND.COM) to start programs or batch files or to open files or directories using the default program. start is not available as a standalone program. The underlying Win32 API is ShellExecute.