Help me please with this batch problem!

[dillon7]

Hi when I create a batch file I enter set -p name= and then i save it as .bat. ps i also put @echo off and Title Hello echo enter your name. Right? So I open it up and i enter my name - Dillon McFarlane and it just quits itself. However, when you put DillonMcFarlane or Dillon it continues to the next command. But I want to write two seperate words. How do I do that?

[mesterio]

What is the operating system that you are having in your computer? You have not mentioned that. Anyway, you can try by right clicking on the file and then set it to the compatibility mode. Hope that this will help you.

[dillon7]

I have Windows 3.0.

[Janos™]

From a website, it was noticed that:

The percent followed by a numeric value, beginning with one, allows users to add variables within a batch file. The below line is an example of what can be used in a batch file.
ECHO Hello %1

When the above one-line batch file is created, add your name after the batch file. For example, typing myname (being the name of the bat file) and then your name:

myname bob

would output:

Hello bob

Note: This can be extended to %2, %3, and so on.

[dillon7]

Actually I just fiogured out that I have Windows 1.0 because someone told me!