Enhanced Batch Commands

Enhanced Batch commands are commands that have been added to the WinOne® Command Prompt to make batch files more powerful and easier to write. They include :-

ASK	Ask a yes/no question and set the errorlevel respectively.
BEEP	Send a beep to the system speaker.
BOX	Display a box in one of four pre-defined formats.
CALC	Perform basic arithmetic calculations in a batch file.
CALLPROC	Call a procedure with in a Batch file.
CHARNEXT	Determine the number of code-points in the first character of a string.
CHARPREV	Determine the number of code-points in the last character of a string.
COLOUR	Change foreground and background screen colours.
COG	Get a value from a COM object property.
COM	Call a COM object method.
COMMA	Insert commas into a number.
COP	Put a value into a COM object property.
DATA	Clear or add items to a global list
DATE2SER	Convert a date to a serial date value.
DIRS	Display the directory stack.
DISKFREE	Determine the amount of free disk space for a disk drive.
DISKUSED	Determine the amount of used disk space for a disk drive.
DO	Conditionally perform a command one or more times.
END	End a batch file.
ENDPROC	End a procedure.
ENUMREG	Enumerate all the keys in the System Registry for the specified hkey.
FILEDATE	Get the last modified date of a file.
FILESIZE	Get the size in bytes of a file.
FILETIME	Get the last modified time of a file.
FILETYPE	Determine whether a file contains text or binary data.
GETINI	Get an initialisation file key value or enumerate all the key names.
GETKEY	Wait for a single keypress from the user.
GETNUM	Wait for a sequence of keypresses from the user.
GETSTR	Wait for a sequence of keypresses from the user.
GETREG	Get a System Registry value or enumerate all the names for a hkey.
GOSUB	Jump to another part of a batch file and then return.
LET	Evaluate an expression and set an environment variable with the result.
LOCATE	Position the cursor anywhere on the screen.
LOWER	Convert a text string to lower case.
PARSE	Allows a sentence to be broken into pieces.
PLAY	Play a wave sound file.
POPD	Pop a directory from the stack and make it the current directory.
PROC	Start a procedure.
PUSHD	Push the current directory onto the stack and change to a new directory.
READ	Read the next item from the global list.
READLN	Read a line of text from a file.
RETURN	Return execution to the next command following the GOSUB command.
SAY	Display a message with out a carriage return - line feed.
SEED	Randomise the random number generator.
SER2DATE	Convert a serial date value to a date.
SETINI	Set or delete an initialisation file key value.
SETREG	Set or delete a System Registry value.
SLEEP	Do nothing for a time.
STOP	Stop processing a batch file and return to previous batch file.
STRFIND	Find the first occurrence of a string within the specified text.
STRFOLD	Normalize or fold a Unicode string as specified.
STRPAD	Pad a text string with space characters.
STRREP	Replace all occurrences of a string within text with another string.
STRREV	Reverse all the characters in a text string.
STRRFIND	Find the last occurrence of a string within the specified text.
STRSIZE	Determine the length of a string.
STRSPLIT	Split a string at the specified position.
STRTRIM	Remove leading and trailing space characters from a text string.
SUBSTR	Extract a section of text from a text string.
UNTIL	Conditionally perform a command zero or more times.
UPPER	Convert a text string to upper case.
WHILE	Conditionally perform a command zero or more times.