hello. how can i make my batch to take line 3-5 (from a text file) and put it into one variable ??? so when i will [echo %var%] i will see the three lines just like the text file.

Hi I don't know of a way to get carriage line+linefeed into an environment variable. you could put them into 3 variables using a third party program called change with is an old PC magizine utility I have which changes text within a text file. Then you could then echo the 3 variables to the screen. Another way is to use find /n which puts a line number before the lines ie. [3] text [4] text [5] text and create a batch file to echo these to a seperate file and type "type filename" instead of "echo %Var%". again you could delete the line numbers useng the change utilty above or leave them in. You may be able to find the Change file on the net, it not I'll sent you a copy. If you need help with code let me know.