http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/ Batch World Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:39:03 GMT foxidrive http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8119 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8119 Batchworld MkII continues the good work of the Batch World group, where the moderator has disappeared and locked the group. I am the moderator of the new Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:52:32 GMT bslasch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8118 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8118 Just to let you know you have encountered a defect in your nas product, Windows OS from 2000 on employ a time stamp with a 64 bit value, some samba based NAS Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:33:33 GMT Parag P. Doke http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8117 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8117 Hello Omer.Try something on the lines of: type PrintMe.txt >> prn Where you need to print the entire contents of the file directly. However, if you wish to Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:43:12 GMT Omer Mohammed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8116 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8116 Hi All, This is my first email in this group. even though i got lots of usefull resources from this group, but recently getting into the batch files. at the Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:01:03 GMT Theodorik OBroin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8115 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8115 Hi, Cheers to Josh for his link. I've taken the batch file listed there, and together with your script, have created a different script. I dunno about you, but Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:58:06 GMT Aristos Vasiliou http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8114 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8114 Hi, Thanks for your reply. This is my batch file so far. @ECHO off title Installing Software ECHO. ECHO Instaling Net Framework dotnetfx35.exe /qb /norestart Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:12:03 GMT Josh Fitzgerald http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8113 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8113 Check out this post on stack overflow: How to code a spinner for waiting processes in a batch file? Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:48:31 GMT Theodorik OBroin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8112 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8112 Hi, Cheers for getting me to look at this again. I find the easiest way is to update the title - that way you don't have to do a CLS all the time. The reason Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:46:44 GMT Aristos Vasiliou http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8111 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8111 Hello, Is there a way to add some kind of progress indicator in a batch file? Maybe stars, or something going like this \|/-\|/- You know something like a Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:27:30 GMT giskier http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8110 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8110 There are 2 ways to return from a call 1) goto :EOF 2) exit /B X In way 2, X is a number, and the errorlevel variable will be set to X. Example for %p in Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:00:42 GMT giskier http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8109 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8109 ... set HelpVar=%1 if /I "%HelpVar:~0,5%" == "zero." ...etc... GISkier ... -- View this message in context: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:14:57 GMT giskier http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8108 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8108 I missed the closing quote: %str:~0,5% Good Luck GISkier ... -- View this message in context: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:59:54 GMT foxidrive http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8107 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8107 On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 08:14:26 -0700 (PDT), giskier ... How are these posts getting to batchworld? Are you gating them yourself? Do you have permission from Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:17:45 GMT giskier http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8106 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8106 The link is not malicious. I am simply informing you of a great tool for batch files in a forum for batch files. If you don't want to click, just do a search Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:16:06 GMT giskier http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8105 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/batchworld/message/8105 In your code to process each line you add the following (which will take the first five letters of the variable and compare to zero. (including period)). As