Echo without wait

[MCubitt]

I am using echo to output information to the user. Using cscript <script.name> from DOS I can receive the messages in a DOS-type window and there is no need for the user to click OK per message. The DOS-type window is nice because it shows the progress of the script.

Is this possible to do within the VB script? I do not partocularly want to have two files to hang about.

Thanks

 

[tsuji]

Hello MCubitt,

Yes, but you made the right choice. Just some detail. It is the same vbscript, so it is not the &quot;Is this possible to do within the VB script&quot;, but a choice of the host, viz, cscript or wscript.

Now, in case you have to initiate the vbs from wscript, you have two choices:

[1] Add a couple of code lines in front of the original vbs to enfore a cscript hosting once wscript is detected as a host. (This we had dealt with it not too distance in the past here, I had participated in the thread---but, the technique is &quot;well-known&quot; and I claim nothing original.)

[2] The other choise is to initiate the wscript with //B (batch mode)

    wscript scriptname.extension //B [options...] [arguments]

This will make all messaging suppressed and no interactive with users allowed. This is well suited for a certain type of tasks. The only detail to take care is to initiate the //B which is not usually the default action. To do so, you can use a classic .bat file to launch the vbs or change the file association for certain users whereby //B action is taken as default action.

regards - tsuji

 

[MCubitt]

tsuji, thanks.. I found the thread: thread329-657045 it works!