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You're supposed to pass the name of the folder that contains the menu layout as the argument. The example that you get when you run the script by itself (from the command prompt; never run scripts by double-clicking them) is AutoMenu.bat "Windows-DOS Commands Help"

Not a known issue per se, but a known and expected behavior. This is the very last sentence of copy /? - To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format). Like all other special characters, you'll have to wrap the fi...

Not a known issue per se, but a known and expected behavior. This is the very last sentence of copy /? - To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format). Like all other special characters, you'll have to wrap the fil...

That used to be the only way to do colored text before VT100 sequences got added to Windows 10 and later.

No, because the entire code hinges on xcopy's /W flag, which waits for a single character to be pressed before continuing. It doesn't wait around to pick up the rest of the input.

Pipe a second findstr for "Ethernet"

2 is for errors (STDERR), 1 is for everything else (STDOUT)

It doesn't matter if you put it at the front or the back of the command you're using it on, although there are a few edge cases where putting it at the front is better.

If that's the entire code, then you're missing the final )

You've also written cdm /k instead of cmd /k (although I don't see why you'd need that at all since it only spawns a child terminal process), but that throws a different error.

If you think you need the SYSTEM account for something, you're doing something wrong. If you need more than 254 characters for a single command, you're also doing something wrong. You haven't described your use case, so I'll just assume the standard reasons for shoving a bunch of code all at once at...

There's excellent documentation at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409 ... se-scripts but I'm not aware of anything interactive.

I'm talking specifically about the language that uses the cscript and wscript interpreters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript It's a scripting language for ActiveX that's modeled on Visual Basic and that I've used multiple times as standalone replacements for VBA macros that I've written. Wikip...

How could this be happening It's obviously a bug in the code. Nobody here is capable of elaborating further because Windows is closed source. more importantly: how to fix / workaround this issue? By pressing one of the 100+ other keys on the keyboard. This is such a non-issue that I'm surprised you...

That's just my answer, but with no explanations and posted here so they're going to see it even if they don't want to. The entire point of me posting it to pastebin was that this is very clearly a homework question and they asked for help and not a solution so they should have the option of not imme...

https://pastebin.com/Lh3gEWhL if you want answers rather than general guidance