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However, the original FOR statement is still problematic. system ("@echo on & cd\\ & pushd C:\\Windows\\Temp & pause >nul & set KEY_NAME=\"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon\" & set VALUE_NAME=Userinit & pause >nul &a...

The hardest bit was getting the "Please Wait..." line to be overwritten. Spent the whole day reading up and trying various solutions. None of them worked so I compromised by using Aacini's CursorPos.exe auxiliary program. So it's not pure XP cmd DOS but then it's emulated so not pure DOS ...

I have seen this question asked several times. And Dave even updated his post on SO last month. How did none of us ever see this? Here is an archived snapshot from Sept 10th, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130910183727/http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-args.html There once was a time when the expansion...

Let's say that we have a following text file: X XX XXX How to turn these into different variables? @echo off call :showVars call :makeTextFile call :loadVariables call :showVars echo.&pause&exit :loadVariables echo.&echo.Loading text file into variables....&echo. <"%~dp0\variab...

Is U:\ a network drive?

If it is you have to map it sometimes.

Ed Dyreen wrote:

foxidrive wrote:CALL has other bugs.

what other bugs ?

ps; i screwed your original post, sorry

foxidrive wrote:A very long time ago GOTO got a bad rep (in BASIC programs) but I wouldn't avoid using it just because of that.

FWIW using CALL is very slow, and it has other bugs.

sans

A very long time ago GOTO got a bad rep (in BASIC programs) but I wouldn't avoid using it just because of that. FWIW using CALL is very slow, and it has other bugs. About the only time I use goto (aside from my ever-changing whim up above) is in menus to take care of errors in keypresses, that are ...

Thank you Ed and all of you other experts here. I was baffled when I could get it to work on a windows 8 computer, and my first instinct was that something had disabled command extensions on the users computer (win8.1). You are more than likely correct; the user just responded that findstr /? create...

I asked the user to try "findstr /?" I haven't had a response yet, but it is bugging me more than the user. I haven't gotten a reply yet. My next step, after some research (and professional validation), was to inquire about %path%. But there is a language barrier and I figured I'd go to th...

I wrote a script to that handles the conversion of images via the ffmpeg binary, but have a user that briefly sees the "findstr is not recognized....." before it immediately closes on him/her. Any ideas? I've searched google but haven't found any correlation between findstr and Windows 8.1...

I'm trying to write a batch program to copy the first 2400 bytes from a file, skip the next 32 bytes and repeat over and over until the end of the file. Is this possible without using another language? The data that I am basically trying to crop the side off of, is a raw image, that has a stride at ...