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I dont think echo off works as a pause? lol. any ways i found and fixed a number of errors and the following works on my linux system under wine... so:

Code:

@echo off :plot echo Its 7:00 AM, you haven't slept a lick. You've been up all night working another profitless project. You realize its back to your day job in 2 hours, a job you hate, but hacking just doesn't pay the bills anymore. Time to make the cofee splash your face, and get on with your day.. echo 9:00 AM, a Monday. You arrive at your day job, almost late thanks to a compiling error you just couldn't walk away from. Here comes your boss, he knows you punched in late, better think of an excuse.. echo Press any key to choose your excuse. :1st_problem echo "What excuse do you give your boss?" echo 1.) "I.. I'm sorry, my car was acting up, I'm really even surprised I made it. I'll be seeing a mechanic on my lunch break." echo 2.) "I wasn't late? I got here at exactl- Oh, was it daylight savings time last night?!" echo 3.) "Oh shove it up your ass." echo 4.) "I'm sorry, sir. I was working on a big project, I ran into some problems & I just coudn't walk away from it. I really hope you understand" SET /P problem1=What's your excuse for being late? if %problem1% == 1 exit if %problem1% == 2 goto :1st_problem

Functioning on my end too! Thanks so much! I didn't think @echo off would substitue a pause, I'm not sure he knew too much of what he was talking about, but the problems I was getting rose some desperacy, lol.

Thanks a lot for your help, the rest is pretty much rinse & repeat for me. xD