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Getting a little better at this. My batch will open the CD drawer, I put in the disk, it closes the door, reads the directory, and sends it to a txt file. Buuuut - What if there is an error, such as no cd, unreadable cd, etc? Right now the program merely will report an error to the screen, and goes ...

Thanks, Trebor! Just for what I've been looking. This is a an Helluva good support forum. Maybe one day I will be able to answer rather than just ask. Yours for Better Television, == Doc Remember, a preposition is the wrong thing to end a sentence with - and That is something up with which I shall n...

Thanks! I'll give this a try. Doesn't seem to be a book or list anywhere of all the Batch commands. Not i one place, anyway. I've got three copies of my GWBASIC and TURBO BASIC books, so I can usually lay my hands on one within a few minutes. (I'm organizationally challenged, as I like to say). Than...

I'm almost there! I have a script which will search through a txt file (list.txt) to the very last line (or record). This last line is always a decimal number between 1 and 1000. I'd like to be able to assign this to a value in a batch file, but cannot understand how to import this one line of data ...