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Thank you for breaking it down. It'll have to digest. How does it actually grab the result from the onscreen text ? Is the FOR code actually intercepting the value returned? Or does it just count 6 character spaces starting from the left side of the screen? I still don't understand how it "grab...

First post, long time DOS fan. I don't have a programmer's mind but have used the command line for years. I'm here to ask if someone can explain in very simple terms, character by character, what this code does. Many years ago I asked a co-worker to wrote some batch code that would grab the next fre...