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Thanks - have been away from my work computer, but will try this when I get back.

Can't wait!

Hi. I thought I knew basic DOS scripting but apparently not. I'm trying to add a line to an existing script that will move the selected file(s) to a new drive (M:) when the first part of the script is complete. (I currently right click the desired file(s) and "send" them to the .bat file) ...

it works!

thanks!

A basic dir question. Or maybe not...? I'm wanting to create a list of all the contents of all the subdirectories in a drive. I want the subdirectories to list in alphabetical order, along with their files I type this: dir /b /s /o:n And what I get is the subdirectories scattered in whatever order t...

Thx but there is something more mysterious going on with these variables...
It didn't find the file at all...
I'll have to study some more...

Hi. The programmer here at work made a script where we can right click a video file and have it converted to some other format. The procedure right now is to have no spaces in the filename. I want to change that, even though I heard it was complicated. Here's what I was given. set fileonly=%~n1 set ...