Hi, I wonder if you can help me please - I need to write a .BAT file to perform a given action on a given day each week, so for example, if today is a Wednesday, then engage this command (the command could be anything, and it's not that which I'm interested in). How do I write ... in a .BAT file (to run under Windows XP Pro) ... a command that will calculate the day of the week please ? I HAD a .BAT file that worked on Windows 2000, the text of which was like this :- @ECHO OFF @For /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=. " %%A in ('Date /t') do @( Set Day=%%A ) IF %day%==Mon goto :URLSMONDAY IF %day%==Tue goto :URLSTUESDAY IF %day%==Wed goto :URLSWEDNESDAY IF %day%==Thu goto :URLSTHURSDAY IF %day%==Fri goto :URLSFRIDAY EXIT END :URLSMONDAY monday.html EXIT :URLSTUESDAY monday.html EXIT :URLSWEDNESDAY monday.html EXIT :URLSTHURSDAY monday.html EXIT :URLSFRIDAY friday.html EXIT Basically I used this to call up a list of internet sites I needed to visit on given days - e.g. Monday I need to check my bank balance, Tuesday I need to visit a forum, Wednesday something else, etc., etc. I automate the .BAT file to run at 7am using the Task Scheduler, so by the time I get to work all the pages are waiting for me ... Cheers guys, David.

An annoying difference betwen Win 2K and XP is the lack in XP of the Day of Week in the Date command. To work around that you can parse the output of Echo.|Command /C Date that forces the legacy DOS format including Day of Week. I can adjust your batch, but I need you report *exactly* what is displayed by the above command as I'm running an italian version of XP and to parse the text I need to know it as is.

"An annoying difference betwen Win 2K and XP" Yeah, one of many. If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2