Hi folks,

A conversation in another echo re timing and 4dos and its
variants triggered the thought I should maybe post this in
case it's of use to somebody.


A few months ago when I was doing a bunch of updating and
upgrading to my dos based network control tracking stuff I
decided it might be nice if the program reminded me of
certain things that should be done periodically, say at
quarter past, the half hour, three quarters past and again
when getting time to hand off at the end of my watch.

So, using horst's little logecho which expresses token uses
in its command lines, (used much as echo would be used for
the uninitiated) I could then build a batch within the batch which stuffed
minutes after the hour into an environment
variable called counter.

then it's easy to trap that variable, branch accordingly.

An example from my programming ...
set counter=
echo @echo off >> counter.bat
:: next line using horst's logecho sets it up.
 logecho set counter=$m >> counter.bat
call counter.bat
del counter.bat
cls
if %COUNTER%==02 goto begin
if %COUNTER%==03 goto begin
if %COUNTER%==04 goto begin
if %COUNTER%==05 goto fiver
if %COUNTER%==07 goto sevens
if %COUNTER%==10 goto tenner
if %COUNTER%==15 goto quarter
if %COUNTER%==20 goto fiver
if %COUNTER%==21 goto sevens
if %COUNTER%==25 goto fiver
if %COUNTER%==28 goto 28
if %COUNTER%==30 goto bottom
if %COUNTER%==35 goto fiver
...

So now say at the label fiver I can make the program display the pending
traffic list on the screen for one minute,
whilst using horst's wait.com to trap the errorlevel
according to the keystroke, so I have the menu available,
even though menu doesn't show on the screen, but the list of outstanding
business does.
I hope this is helpful to somebody out there.


Regards,
           Richard
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