i had an old laptop lying around so i decided to muck around with dos a bit...

according to this page, the code below does what i want at this stage.

ECHO Enter some input, and press Enter when ready . . .
ECHO 
COPY CON USRINPUT.TMP
ECHO 
CLS
ECHO You typed:
TYPE USRINPUT.TMP

my problem is that i'm confused about how to make the escape symbol,() and the whole escape sequence in general.

i already have DEVICE=COS71ANSI.SYS in CONFIG.SYS...

someone please help me and point me in the right direction!

PS: is there a better way to do this without usuing COPY CON and ANSI.SYS?

(i'm so n00b.. i've tried though )