Simplistic example of my problem. Say Im in directory of FRUIT cd bnana pause count.exe :end Ok, for some reason it wants to put "cd bnana pause count.exe" all together then gives me an error about too many parameters. If I do this manually and type cd bnana <return> pause <return> count.exe <return> then it works correctly. Its been long time since I messed with batch files so maybe I'm forgetting something simple?

All I can tell you is it should work. What editor are you creating the file with? You might try command /y /c mybatch.bat to step through the bat (command.com has to be available on the path) We have nothing against ideas. We're against people spreading them. - General Augusto Pinochet of Chile

Hi, I think jboy is right on. You probably have some mystery code put in by an editor which is NOT pure text. BTW. what's 'count?' [Been a long time since I did 6.22] M2

Thanks, yep it was the text editor I was using. Had written it on another computer. When I went back using 6.22 built in text editor, things were indeed bunched up on one line. I just re-spaced them and voila, everything worked. By way my given batch file above was just simplistic example of problem, had no meaning otherwise.

Glad you got it straightened out. We have nothing against ideas. We're against people spreading them. - General Augusto Pinochet of Chile