Subj : Re: Script that switches out text on certain lines
To   : All
From : Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Date : Wed Mar 06 2002 10:15 am

From: Jonathan.de.Boyne.Pollard@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Jonathan de Boyne 
Pollard)
Subject: Re: Script that switches out text on certain lines

From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard@tesco.net>

BJ> The input from me should alter the line in the unattend.txt
BJ> file [...] where says
BJ>    COMPUTERNAME=

This much is easy to do with 4DOS, the command interpreter for DOS, because
4DOS has a built in INPUT command:

        SET COMPUTERNAME=DefaultComputerName
        INPUT /E "What computer name would you like, Bjorn?" %%COMPUTERNAME
        ECHO COMPUTERNAME=%COMPUTERNAME% >> UNATTEND.TXT

( The initial SET command and the /E option to INPUT are there merely to make
things a little prettier. )

BJ> Of course it should replace an old computer name if there is one in the
file.

This is more difficult, without resorting to using a Unix style command
interpreter, and I note that none of the other replies posted have satisfied
this requirement, either.  (-:
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