{"id":3954,"date":"2021-11-06T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=3954"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T12:03:39","slug":"set-p-not-waiting-for-input-not-workingdos","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/programming\/set-p-not-waiting-for-input-not-workingdos\/22815.html","title":{"rendered":"SET \/P Not Waiting For Input (Not Working)DOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;td&gt;In dos mode in windows SET \/p is working fine, but in real DOS is jumping over. After long time I found an answer after very long search. To ask for input in dos use small program readkey.exe or readln.exe (read131.zip) made by Ralph B Smith Jr with can be downloaded from &lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210123043122\/http:\/\/sunsite2.icm.edu.pl\/pub\/garbo\/pc\/batchutil\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221;&gt;http:\/\/sunsite2.icm.edu.pl\/pub\/garb&#8230;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/td&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;td&gt;I started new discussion because &lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210123043122\/https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-xp\/dos-set-p-not-waiting-for-input\/166469.html&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&gt;https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wi&#8230;&lt;\/a&gt; was closed.&lt;p&gt;In MS DOS &#8220;SET \/P&#8221; is not working. If you will make bootable floppy or pen drive with DOS 6.22 or other it will not work but in windows command prompt is working fine.&lt;br&gt;I couldn&#8217;t find a command which will read from the keyboard for batch files&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope it can be helpful for someone.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regards&lt;br&gt;Dawid&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/td&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":12},"question-category":[55],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-programming"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}