DOS Command/Batch File/Copy Question. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () I have a file containing many files with a name in the format FILENAME.txt.MMDDYY. I want to end up with a merged file of all the data. For example,...

Batch File Question. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () I have a text file with a list of names, I would like to redirect this file somehow to the md/mkdir command so that it will read the file and make a directory for each entry...

you run something like that in a .bat file? I didn't know irfanview could run from command line. I'm thinking of a bat file I could copy into a folder, click once & make the folder's contents into web size plus thumbnails but maybe it's not that easy....

clear. The command (batch file, called backup.bat) runs fine manually, either being called from a shortcut on the desktop or from the command window directly. What does NOT run fine is when I try to call the backup.bat batch file from the Windows XP...

like this. Explorer isn't alive when cmdlines.txt gets run. I would recommend you kick off a batch file from guirunonce. Use "start /wait" before each msiexec.exe command in your batch file to ensure that one installation is finished before you start...

when trying from the cmd prompt . However, if i manually copy the file from within the cmd prompt by simply typing the command it works! I note now, however, that the batch file is using xcopy and the manual copy used copy. I failed to test manually using...

batch file, not by "move". > What other commands do you have in that batch file? >>> Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () What's even stranger is that the error message "Bad command or file name" does not exist under WinXP!...

Process Explorer : (an enhanced Task Manager!) 8) Defrag the protected files ( Registry , hiberfil.sys, Pagefile.sys etc.) 9) Optimize the prefetching Run this command : %windir%\system32\Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks usefull...

is the best way to accomplish this ? Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup () Is it just a one time copy? COPY or XCOPY from a command line is probably the quickest way. You could put the copy command into a batch file and setup a task to...

Was initially thinking of the batch file running on the server - looking for file on client to copy. I guess the client could run batch file and copy to a server share. But same problem exists over RDP that you cant really use batch file to copy to a...