I keep seeing e100'SET blah blah and FOR %x IN (rcx w q). What is all this? Is it hex, but what does it all mean? It seems that e100 is some kind of start of file. Me == Uber confused.

Well, I post those strings often on this forum, on batch-related subjects. Here's an example: echo e100'SET %%1='> %temp%.\T1.BAT for %%? in (rcx 7 w q) do echo %%?>> %temp%.\T1.BAT type %temp%.\T1.BAT |DEBUG %temp%.\T1.BAT > nul What does that do? It creates a DEBUG script with the following: e100'SET %1=' (note the single percent) rcx 7 w q Then, use the script with DEBUG on the same temporary file containing the script (I could affect another file, but I rather use only one). But what does the script do? I'll give a *quick* explanation: e100'SET %1=' Write the string "SET %1=" (no quotes) to offset 100 rcx Enter CX register, which controls file size 7 Set file size to 7 bytes w Write the file (begginning on ofset 100, by default) q Quit What's the result? The result is a file which contains: SET %1= And nothing more. If I had done a "echo SET %%1=>> %temp%.\T1.BAT", the file would be: SET %1=.. Those two dots are representing the CR/LF characters, which mark a line break on DOS. So, if I append any string to the file created with the DEBUG script, the data will be located right after the equals sign. This way, I can send it to a variable. echo e100'SET %%1='> %temp%.\T1.BAT for %%? in (rcx 7 w q) do echo %%?>> %temp%.\T1.BAT type %temp%.\T1.BAT |DEBUG %temp%.\T1.BAT > nul CD >> %temp%.\T1.BAT call %temp%.\T1.BAT VARNAME The output of the CD command is saved on the VARNAME variable. Now, this wouldn't do it: echo SET %%1=> %temp%.\T1.BAT CD >> %temp%.\T1.BAT call %temp%.\T1.BAT VARNAME Since %temp%.\T1.BAT would contain after line 2: SET %1= C:\DIRECTORY Instead of SET %1=C:\DIRECTORY This last one is achieved with all that e100/rcx/w/q thing. Nevertheless, all that is unecessary on NT systems, since you can use FOR /F: for /F %%I in ('CD') do set VARNAME=%%I -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br _______________________________________________________