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Thanks,

I will give this a try.

Jeff
a Seattleite

Is there a way to determine what version a user's Windows version they are running a batch file without have to discover (I am assuming) through RegEdit?

I want to create a validation that a batch file can only be run in Vista or Windows 7.

Thanks

Jeff in Seattle

Is there a way to determine if given a specific (file or directory) path, what its long or short path equivalent? I am writing some PHP code, and I need a way to execute a command (within Windows environment) whereby when given a (file or directory) path it will always return its equivalent long pat...

In PHP and C, there is predefined constate __LINE__ which tell whats line number is currently being executed.

Is there an equivalent in DOS commands that can be used within a BATCH command file?

Thanks

Jeff in Seattle

If calling FOO v1 v2 v3 ..., and wish to gather all the parameters: SET PARAMS= :SHIFT_LOOP IF "%1"=="" GOTO SHIFT_OUT SET PARAMS=%PARAMS% %1 SHIFT GOTO SHIFT_LOOP :SHIFT_OUT If calling FOO v1 v2 v3 ..., and wish to gather all the parameters after the second parameter: SHIFT SHIF...

Is there a way within the DOS command-line to determine the file property version number of a DLL or EXE ? I want to use it to determine if I have version soup over a group of DLLs in C:\Windows\system32. This gives me only the DLL names: C:\WINDOWS\system32>dir /B wm*.dll Now next to the DLL names,...

Within a batch file, I am using the function sqlcmd that can take variable number of argments. For example: sqlcmd %database% %file% -v value1 -v value2 -v value3 ... I want to pass into this batch file the values (value1, value2, value3, ...) that would be applied to sqlcmd function. In other words...