HELLO: I HAVE A PROBLEM I NEED TO KNOW HOW CAN GET THE TIME AND DATE FROM A OLD FILE ,I WENT TO THE PROPERTIES OF THAT FILE AND IS THERE ALL WHAT I NEED ,THE PROBLEM IS THAT IS NOT ALLOW ME TO COPY AT ALL . PLEASE HELP

Try this: @echo off cls for /f %%1 in ('dir /b path\filename.ext') do ( set filedate=%%~t1 ) echo %filedate%

There is no for /f in DOS. But there sure is a CAPSLOCK. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

<big smile> Well let's pretend we've initialized the Windows MS-Dos environment in XP in accordance with the first few lines of Config.nt </big smile> Perhaps the OP will do us the courtesy of coming back to report success or failure without using CapsLock. Regards W.

couldn't we just assume that OP is using XP? I see the first post that OS version is XP.

Regardless of whether it's DOS or NT, DIR pretty much gets what he needs. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2