From a complete novice... Anyone supply me with an example NT script and how to run it on my laptop. I want a script to kick off a number of jobs, so I can extract data from a unix box overnight. Any help appreciated. ;o)

by extract from a Unix server do you mean ftp?? you can create a .bat or .cmd file and just put dos commands in it... If you are using FTP then you can use the -s switch to put all the ftp commands in it.. for example: Create Get files.cmd ***Inside files.cmd **** echo off REM FTP command has a -s switch to run REM FTP Commands ftp -s:ftpcommands.txt ftp.someserver.com copy c:\Documents and Settings\users\My documents\Movies\*.mpg C:\Movies\*.mpg echo Movies have been copied! ***inside of ftpcommands.txt **** username password cd /home/blah/blah lcd c:\Documents and Settings\users\My documents\Movies bin mget *.mpg bye ***End of ftpcommands.txt ****