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[Brassman101]

I have asked my OS Tech Teacher and he couldnt give me an answer so i turn here(which i should have done right away) ...

In DOS, i dont want it to ask me ARE YOU SURE....??? like when you format Are you sure you want to format ? comes up....

Is there a switch that automatically executes the command???

If someone knows i'd be forever greatful... being a batch file writer.

Thanks in advance

Brassman

[pillainp]

Try out the switch listed below:

<B>/AUTOTEST</B> Formatting proceeds without further user input or warning messages. All sectors previously marked bad on the hard drive are retested (i.e. equivalent to including the /C switch)². The AUTOTEST switch can be used in conjunction with the /U, /S, and /F switches. It is not compatible with /Q (causing an error message) and /V is ignored.

Also try this siite for a list of all MSDOS 7 commands:
http://home7.inet.tele.dk/batfiles/msdos7/

[Brassman101]

Thanks so much... how about a switch for other commands like instead of pressing "y" all the time to confirm ???

That was more along the lines of what i was looking for but the autotest was also very helpful... thanks so much and i hope there is one for that

brassman

[sdkramer]

you could use echo y|commandhere

[EzyStvy]

At a DOS prompt you can type" copy /? for example. Part of the help will show you:

/Y ->Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.


Copy c:\xxx.xxx d:\ /y