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While looking for something in my collection of All Basic Code stuff I found this beastie. It is almost 20 years old and still works. I had forgotten about batch files. If you want, save it as BEER.BAT, then click on it to run.
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While looking for something in my collection of All Basic Code stuff I found this beastie. It is almost 20 years old and still works. I had forgotten about batch files. If you want, save it as BEER.BAT, then click on it to run.
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:That TronDoc posted to the HotBasic forum. :Code: @echo off REM 99 Bottles of Beer in DOS Batch REM Gert-jan Los ([email protected]) REM The file with batch program must be named as "beer.bat" REM Noted by Vladimir Vojacek ([email protected]), 2003-07-03 if "%1"=="" goto outer if "%1"=="body" goto body :inner pause for %%a in ( 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ) do call beer body %2 %%a goto exit :outer pause for %%a in ( 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ) do call beer inner %%a goto exit :body set num=%2%3 set bottle=bottles if "%num%"=="99" goto skipfirst if "%2"=="0" set num=%3 if "%num%"=="1" set bottle=bottle echo %num% %bottle% of beer on the wall echo. if "%num%"=="0" exit :skipfirst echo %num% %bottle% of beer on the wall echo %num% %bottle% of beer echo take one down and pass it around :exit :So you actually can do something useful with a batch file :