Jonathan,

MPEX will do it. Here is an example from their Help facility:

   !RUN MAIN.PUB.VESOFT;PARM=1
   %SETVAR FNAME PRINTOPREPLY('Which file should we output to?')
   %IF FEXISTS(FNAME) THEN
   %  IF PRINTOPREPLY('OK to purge file '+FNAME+'?')='Y' THEN
   %    PURGE !FNAME
   %  ENDIF
   %ENDIF
   %FILE MYOUTFIL=!FNAME,NEW;SAVE
   %EXIT

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Leonard S. Berkowitz
Perot Health Care Systems
(Harvard Pilgrim Health Care account)
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"Jonathan M. Backus" <[log in to unmask]> on 05/21/2001 12:42:22 PM

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        Does anybody know of a little utility program that can be placed in a
batch
job that would then prompt the console for a reply and it would then set a
variable based on the reply before moving on?  I'm not looking for variable
replacement at stream time but rather variable creation during execution of
a job.

Thanx,
  Jonathan (Jon) M. Backus, MPE-CSM ~ President
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