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Hi Is there any way i can unzip files using DOS commands. i am able to zip the files using DOS commands. Is there any way that i can do the same? THx Naren
Hi, I have winzip 7 and winrar. Is there a way to zip a file using the command line? cmd? i know it is possible through winzip 10.. but i was hoping there would be a free tool that can d...
Hi, I am trying to set up a batch file that uses schematron to validate xml data.  However, I am having some trouble with the DOS command syntax, I keep getting an error message "was unexpe...
i want to have a batch file that upon running will upload a file to my websapce with out any user intervention at all.
I am piping data into a txt file in windows 2000 with a CMD file like this: ECHO %date% , %TIME% >> Mylog.txt The data is being stored like this: Wed 06/29/2005,17:22:57.98 How do ...
How to read file in batch file .   I have a file called records.txt and it has a value of "5".  Now I want to read this file in a.bat file and get "5" value into a variable.  Can any one h...
I'm building a logon script for my network and want it to display the following information after it runs: Username Domain Current Date/Time OS Version w/SP Level Processor Type Processo...
Hi, I need to figure out how to pass parameters to a .BAT file. I am using a program that calls the bat file.  In the call it must have one double quote at the begging and one double quo...
I am trying to do the following but it just does not seem to work. SET BASE_DIR=C:\MemberCommit SET SRC_LIST=member_commit.2* SET FLIST=DIR /b %BASE_DIR%\%SRC_LIST% FOR /F %%Z IN (%FLI...
Hi experts Windows XP doesn't have the old Win9x CHOICE command, but there is a workaround using SET /P instead.  I know I can copy over Choice.com from a Win98 system and use that, but doe...
I have a batch file that executes an exe which downloads  a page form the site www.ipchicken.com (it gives your current wanip) and writes the output to a text file. i need to run this bat file...
Hi, I am also in the same problem by this days. Im trying to make a bootable cd with msdos 6.22 with no sucess. I'd tried many ways but nothin works. In some of the ways I tried it asked for ...
HI, i get error 'File not found' when i run a bat file that normally works. It's failing now because it's not taking the relative path, it's reading instead from another default location. H...
Hi, I need a batch file that does the following: 1.) append some text (html code) before and after every filename in a directory, like this : <a href="filename.jpg">filename.jpg</a> (as you ...
I am trying to clean my Dell laptop and reintalling Windows XP Pro and I immediately get a message sayinf that I am missing a nvrD32.sys file. Any adive on what to do?
I am trying to copy some files into the %SYSTEMROOT%\system32 folder. I DO NOT want to over write any existing files (skip existing files). I need to include this command in a batch file...
How can I echo special characters to the command line using MS DOS 'echo' command? For example, I want to echo a greater-than sign or a less-than sign, rather than DOS thinking I'm redirect...
Hi, I want the date format as Follows May 1st 2004 as 050104. I am using the following code in my batch file. set date=%DATE% set time=%TIME% for /f "tokens=2-7 delims=/: " %%a in ("%...
Is there a pause command in dos for windows 2000.  Sleep doesn't work.  Any other commands that will work in DOS that will act like the sleep command?
I am trying to find a batch file or script that will automatically delete all log files in a specific folder older than 30 days.  I saw Pbarrette's response to question titled Batch file to De...
i want to copy a folder from the C drive to the A drive on a dos machine. what is the correct syntax? i tried:  copy c:\foldername a:\foldername but it only copied one file from the fol...
Windows 98 se - DOS 7.10 I was messing around with the inbuilt command line option for the Windows Help executable that allows you to decompile a .CHM file to its  individual components. I ...
We (unfortunately) still use a DOS program that will of course only print to a LPT port, but we only have TCP/IP printers on the network.  I need to redirect any print job sent to LPT1 to a sp...
Who is the DOS command line expert? Or is there another way to do what I need, maybe a SQL script? From inside a program I want to change permissions on a directory and all the files in it, sa...
Users on my network have a logon script called LOGON.BAT I want to perform specific processing based upon day of the week.  Basically if the day of the week is Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, ...