I have a friend who's running these two batch files, one right after the other: COPY \\INNCNT07\ARCSERVE$\LOG\ARCSERVE.LOG \\INNCNT07\ARCSERVE$\LOG\ARCSERVE.TMP COPY \\INNCNT07\ARCSERVE$\LOG\ARCSERVE.LOG U:ARCSERV$.LOG G:\UTILS\LL2 U:ARCSERV$.LOG DEL U:ARCSERV$.LOG DEL \\INNCNT07\ARCSERVE$\LOG\ARCSERVE.LOG And the second... COPY \\INNCNT09\ARCSERVE$\LOG\ARCSERVE.LOG \\INNCNT09\ARCSERVE$\LOG\ARCSERVE.TMP COPY \\INNCNT09\ARCSERVE$\LOG\ARCSERVE.LOG U:ARCSERV$.LOG G:\UTILS\LL2 U:ARCSERV$.LOG DEL U:ARCSERV$.LOG DEL \\INNCNT09\ARCSERVE$\LOG\ARCSERVE.LOG His concern is that after the second batch file runs, the contents of the ARCSERV$.LOG file only have the files from the INNCNT09 server, not the INNCNT07. I might be a little rusty on batch files, but it seems to me that the second batch file will overwrite the file in question. Am I right, or is there something else wrong here?

no - you are correct. The first batch file is identical to the second except the names (INNCNT07 and INNCNT09) are changed therefore the second one is overwriting the first.

John -- Thanks for the input!