On Friday 22 November 2002 13:20, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In W95, the
> shortcut has "batfile.bat ?", and the ? does the trick. I have no idea how
> to do the same thing on W2K. Anyone?

Unfortunately, the "?" trick only works if it is the ONLY thing on the command
line -- I wanted to start a mysql client and prompt for the "name" of the
user to connect as -- thinking the "?" got substituted in wherever it
appeared, I tried "mysql -u ? -h db.system.name database"  No go with the
other "parameters" on the line -- rather annoying...

> If someone has some clever bit of Windows Scripting Host scripting
> or vbscript, it would be great if that hid the password as typed.

I eventually had to do it this way -- it ends up being a 3-5 line WSH file
(which is on a different system, so I can't bring it up for the "specifics"
right now).  The basic premise being as follows:

  [dim statements for a string and a "system" item]
  x=input("prompt","title","default") [or however the "input" parameters are
laid out]
  [the "system item" is instantiated]
  [the "run" method of the "system item" is invoked with "x" appended to the
command line]

If you look in the windows scripting/vbscript help files, you'll find what you
need for getting input and "executing a process".  If you can't find this,
let me know and I'll dig up the command file

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