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This SHOULD work, but I have run into some things like this before. It could be as simple as an "exit" command or something. Does this first repl_eagan_4_to_5_cwc.cmd script have an "exit" command in it? If not, what happens when you run this script by itself? I put a "pause...

Well, I did a bit more hunting and it turns out the best way to do this via simple automated means callable from DOS is to write a vbscript. Here's a little something I threw together based on some other stuff I found on ye olde internet: 'volControlvbs volUp=WScript.Arguments(0) sender="{UP &q...

Hmmm... which only gets me wondering, "How do third party tools do it?". I may give that a shot if nothing else pops up.
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Hey, I did do a search on this in the forum and I saw a SendKey method can be used to mute the volume, but I am interested in controlling the volume via batch, not just muting and unmuting.

Any ideas?

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You could try something like this: SET directory=\\server\data\jan-2010 FOR /F "tokens=*" %%I in ('dir %directory% /ad /b') DO dir "%directory%\%%I" /a-d /b >> dir.txt You could even play with the /s switch in the dir command to parse through layers of subfolders. Is this any help?

I have an audit process that I developed and I made a tweak to it and now it doesn't work as expected when run as a scheduled task. I search for a string in a file and save the output in a temporary file. Here's what I see in the output when automated: ---------- D:\PATH\FILE.TXT: 0 but when run man...

Why didn't I think of that? I guess because I was too hung up on making the bitwise work. But looking at it, it looks logical, although I'll bet it is not as fast as the bitwise operation but I would only need to check smaller stings (up to 40 - 50 chars at most).

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SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS was already in my script. It may just be a variance between DOS 5.0 (Server 2k) and DOS 5.1 (Win XP). Any ideas?

That is what appears to be the case. I have only had issues with bitwise operations using SET /A. Is it possible that Server 2000 and XP also have different CMD.EXE, and both systems understand "SET /A ...", but in different ways ? If the two work differently, I'll have to find a work arou...

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I got the same thing, I ignored it and wondered if it were directed to more than myself. I'll drop a note to an admin

Was it just a command process that piped into the log? What you have is potentially a prompt like 'Overwrite File(Y/N)?' in a background process, so what I have done is use TSKILL after finding the PID associated with the log. You can try QUERY PROCESS * to list all active processes and their IDs (N...

Hmmm, do you get a blank page when you try it without 'forum' as an argument to the batch? And when you do it with 'forum' does it say "Page Not Found" followed by some other info? It works for other websites... Replace Dostips.com in your script with another known URL... I dunno if it is ...

That is a really cool resource! But all I was saying is that in an effort to kill some hanging background processes on a server at work, I came across TASKKILL but it was useless to me because it was not a recognized command on Windows Server 2000. Same thing with my home edition XP. But TSKILL work...

You would have to use TSKILL if using a home version of Windows XP... or in Windows Server 2000 at least that's been my experience. TSKILL is a bit different from TASKKILL

If !k's suggestion isn't enough, I can help. Or at least make an attempt.

You could do something like this but there are several approaches: @ECHO OFF nslookup dostips.com 8.8.8.8|findstr "Address:" > tmp.txt FOR /F "tokens=2 skip=1 delims=: " %%d in (tmp.txt) do SET targetip=%%d ::NOTE the <SPACE> in the delims part "%IEXPLORERPATH%\IEXPL...