Controlling a persistent progress bar
Command line options of the ppbS program are used to control a ppb. Every manner of control over a ppb is managed through a verb and verb arguments. You can have any number of verbs in the command line.
DOS> ppbs settext 1 "Step 1 in progress"
N is the ppb window number.
The text after N is placed above the progress bar. Enclose in quotes any text that contains spaces.