pause

Suspends the processing of a batch program, displaying the prompt, Press any key to continue . Windows commands reference

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Suspends the processing of a batch program, displaying the prompt, Press any key to continue . . . - If you press CTRL+C to stop a batch program, the following message appears, Terminate batch job (Y/N)?. If you press Y (for yes) in response to this message, the batch program ends and control returns to the operating system. - You can insert the pause command before a section of the batch file that you might not want to process. When pause suspends processing of the batch program, you can press CTRL+C and then press Y to stop the batch program.

pause

To create a batch program that prompts the user to change disks in one of the drives, type

@echo off
:Begin
copy a:*.*
echo Put a new disk into Drive A
pause
goto begin

Identify

/?Displays help at the command prompt.