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you are quite right, that works fine. Thanks a lot.

I have a batch file (lets call it doit.bat) which calls doit.exe. doit.bat wants to sonsume the first 3 arguments, and pass any remaining ones to doit.exe. On unix I am used to shifting away the used arguments and hten passing on $*. However in dos %* seems unaffected by shift? is this really the ca...

this dos command shell is wierd. But thanks for the tip, I think I will use it because I have had to duplicate a lot of code. This looks almost like a gosub (like we used to use so many years ago ..)

is there any way of getting an if A or B (do something) construct?