{"id":9950,"date":"2021-12-05T00:32:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T00:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=9950"},"modified":"2021-12-05T00:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T00:34:39","slug":"cant-assign-esc-key-in-a-batch-file","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/programming\/cant-assign-esc-key-in-a-batch-file\/20640.html","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Assign Esc Key In a Batch File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. I just recently started looking in DOS commands when I had to many shortcuts on my desktop. So I found some simple Batch Menus and copy and edited them so I could use them to cut down the amount of shortcuts on my deskop. Here&#8217;s 1 of them.<\/p>\n<p>@echo off<br \/>\nColor 79<br \/>\ngoto menu<br \/>\n:menu<br \/>\nECHO.<br \/>\nECHO \u00c9\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00bb<br \/>\nECHO \u00ba [ DIRECTORIES ] \u00ba<br \/>\nECHO \u00cc\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00b9<br \/>\nECHO \u00ba 1. NBA 2k10 \u00ba<br \/>\nECHO \u00ba 2. Dragon Age: Origins \u00ba<br \/>\nECHO \u00ba 3. Steam \u00ba<br \/>\nECHO \u00ba 4. Divinity II &#8211; Ego Draconis \u00ba<br \/>\nECHO \u00ba 5. Prototype \u00ba<br \/>\nECHO \u00ba 6. Close $tax Menu \u00ba<br \/>\nECHO \u00c8\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00cd\u00bc<br \/>\nECHO.<br \/>\nECHO Which Directory Would You Like To Open?<br \/>\nECHO.<br \/>\nCHOICE \/C:123456<br \/>\nIF ERRORLEVEL ==6 EXIT<br \/>\nIF ERRORLEVEL ==5 GOTO PROTOTYPEdir<br \/>\nIF ERRORLEVEL ==4 GOTO DIVINITYdir<br \/>\nIF ERRORLEVEL ==3 GOTO STEAMdir<br \/>\nIF ERRORLEVEL ==2 GOTO DAOdir<br \/>\nIF ERRORLEVEL ==1 GOTO NBA2K10dir<br \/>\n:NBA2K10dir<br \/>\n%SystemRoot%\\explorer.exe &#8220;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\2K Sports\\NBA 2K10&#8221;<br \/>\ncls<br \/>\ngoto menu<br \/>\n:DAOdir<br \/>\n%SystemRoot%\\explorer.exe &#8220;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Dragon Age\\bin_ship&#8221;<br \/>\ncls<br \/>\ngoto menu<br \/>\n:STEAMdir<br \/>\n%SystemRoot%\\explorer.exe &#8220;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam&#8221;<br \/>\ncls<br \/>\ngoto menu<br \/>\n:DIVINITYdir<br \/>\n%SystemRoot%\\explorer.exe &#8220;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Divinity2&#8221;<br \/>\ncls<br \/>\ngoto menu<br \/>\n:PROTOTYPEdir<br \/>\n%SystemRoot%\\explorer.exe &#8220;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Activision\\Prototype&#8221;<br \/>\ncls<br \/>\ngoto menu<br \/>\n:end<\/p>\n<p>This menu works great but I want the Esc key to Exit the menu instead of the #6 how do I assign the Esc key<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":4},"question-category":[55],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-9950","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\/9950","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=9950"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=9950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}