Hi I can ping xyz >> ping.txt to dump the contents into the file. I then want to query this file for a successfull ping and if so map a drive to that machine. Can someone tell me how to do this. I have tried to use the find command but cannot get it to generate an error level so it can progress. Thanks in advance Lee

Find returns errorlevels 0, 1, 2 Try these, but WATCH for wrapped lines! :: pingnow.bat @ECHO off IF "%1"=="" ECHO IP address required IF "%1"=="" GOTO end :: Ascii assembler code by Herbert Kleebauer ECHO ,8P_,FPZ0U]0U[,B0EWP_[SCYQ2M@I~E5@@O!A>%temp%.\echoit.com TYPE nul >%temp%.\log.txt SET cnt= :loop SET cnt=%cnt%* ECHO @PROMPT SET time=$t> %temp%.\gettim1.bat %COMSPEC% /E:2048 /c %temp%.\gettim1.bat> %temp%.\gettim2.bat CALL %temp%.\gettim2.bat %temp%.\echoit.com %time% >>%temp%.\log.txt PING -a -n 1 -s 1 %1 |FIND "Re" >>%temp%.\log.txt IF errorlevel 1 ECHO Destination not reachable IF not "%cnt%"=="*****" GOTO loop SET cnt= SET time= DEL %temp%.\gettim2.bat DEL %temp%.\echoit.com TYPE %temp%.\log.txt :end :: :: pingnow2.bat @ECHO off IF "%1"=="" ECHO IP address required IF "%1"=="" GOTO end :: Ascii assembler code by Herbert Kleebauer PING -a -n 1 -s 1 %1 |FIND "Re" >nul IF errorlevel 1 ECHO Destination not reachable IF errorlevel 1 GOTO end SET cnt= TYPE nul >%temp%.\log.txt TYPE nul >%temp%.\log.tmp ECHO ,8P_,FPZ0U]0U[,B0EWP_[SCYQ2M@I~E5@@O!A>%temp%.\echoit.com ECHO * * Press Q to quit * * :loop SET cnt=%cnt%* ECHO @PROMPT SET time=$t>%temp%.\gettim1.bat %COMSPEC% /E:2048 /c %temp%.\gettim1.bat> %temp%.\gettim2.bat CALL %temp%.\gettim2.bat %temp%.\echoit.com %time% > %temp%.\log.tmp PING -a -n 1 -s 1 %1 |FIND "Re">> %temp%.\log.tmp TYPE %temp%.\log.tmp >>%temp%.\log.txt TYPE %temp%.\log.tmp IF "%cnt%"=="***********************" ECHO * * Press Q to quit * * IF "%cnt%"=="***********************" SET cnt= CHOICE.COM /N /CQC /TC,1 >nul IF errorlevel 2 GOTO loop SET cnt= SET time= DEL %temp%.\gettim?.bat DEL %temp%.\echoit.com :end ::

Thanks for that. So is there an easy way?? Lee

Truely, my dear friend, that was a disgusting display of batch. I would do it this way: @echo off ping xyz>ping.txt find "oåtkomlig" ping.txt>nul if errorlevel 1 goto reachable echo Could not ping! goto end :reachable echo Could ping! :end note 1: I am unsure about how to map network drives for the moment. Replace the line "echo Could ping!" with whatever command is needed to map the network drive. note 2: you shall also, of course, replaze "xyz" with the ip/name of the computer you are pinging. note 3: the string "oåtkomlig" means unreachable in Swedish, which happens to be the language of my operating system. I think the English/American version of ping says "unreachable", but I am not sure about the exact words and such so you just replace "oåtkomlig" with any string that ping only outputs when it can't ping the computer. Good luck.