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Hey guys..I have a desktop running Windows 7 and a work laptop (on a domain) running XP Pro SP2. I have created a share on my laptop to access my desktop so I can pull the files I need. The share works just fine but I would like to automate the transfer process (from the shared folder on my laptop t...

Sorry for all the confusion. After playing around with it some more I got the answer.I was pretty much just testing how the command functioned and my syntax was off. Thanks.

I am reading the help from the cmd prompt and it says the syntax is set variable = string. I am interpreting this as I am giving the string a value. So when I type the string portion, it returns the variable. Sorry for the poor example. I have never needed to know how to use this command before. Var...

@echo off
echo Program Name: = %0
set %1 =%test%
echo Argument 1 =%1
echo Argument 2 =%2
echo Argument 3 =%3

I am trying to output the test variable to the Argument 1 line. Or do I have this completely jacked up?

I am working on a batch script and am having trouble with the set command. I have looked in the help section of the command but am still missing something (probably simple). Here is what I have so far: @echo off echo Program Name: = %0 set %1 =%test% echo Argument 1 =%1 echo Argument 2 =%2 echo Argu...