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hi,thank you so much! they both work perfectly!

hi all, i have opened a new topic because this problem is different form others i have had in the past. i need 3 batch files: 1: set a printer as default my business runs a lot of different printers and some batch printing software along with some automation software. i need a batch file that can se...

that works great thanks foxidrive!
sorry Endoro, in future ill show more examples

hi again, i have another problem. since this is a similar problem i thought i would post it under this topic. i need a batch file that can combine the text in two different txt files into one. for example name.txt tony josh tom Size.txt Large Small and then combine the text into: total.txt tony Larg...

thank you so much for your help

hi again, there is a slight problem with the batch file, i hope some one can help. for some reason the batch file doesn't show lines of text exactly as they should appear for example anything coming after the symbols "-" and "&" is removed in the total.txt along with them sym...

thanks Squashman this will come in handy, because iv never noticed it before i feel silly now lol

ahhh thats great thanks! i rely should learn how to program batch files for myself one day, do you know any good instructional websites i can learn it from step by step?

hi, is there anyway to modify the batch file so it does not add spaces at the end of each item in the total.txt list? for example ( _ = space) Item1_ Item2_ Item2_ to Item1 Item2 Item2 its not a big problem as i have just renamed my files but it would help clean things up a little kind regards Josh

hi, that is fantastic! this will helps so much! you have just made my job a whole world easer. thank you so much!

like when you press enter with no input

hi, that's excellent! i almost didn't think it was possible. it works great, but sometimes when the same customer buys two different items the items.txt file can show: (with an empty line) Item.txt Item A Item B Amount.txt 2 1 1 with the empty line. i noticed that the code does not multiply the empt...

if it helps in any way the codes i use in my batch file (which are without the batch code i need help with) are: @echo off :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :set folder="C:\Users\DiskRetail\Desktop\New folder (3)" IS THE LOCATION :TO DELEAT ALL FILES ::::::::::::::...

hi, a while back i got help here with a problem ( a batch program that looked into a text file with a list of items and then made a copy of all the items from one folder into another (renaming the file with a number so as not to overwrite duplicates) this has been extremely useful with my business a...

Thanks for your advice Ed Dyreen, I'm still in the 30 day trial of mouserobot an to buy its quite expensive. in the mean time ill have a good look into AutoIt and see what i can come up with.