Thanks to Andy Neil, I got my commandfile to run and everything is cool except that I do not get the "console file" c.d in the above example. Until I switched to the @ format, I got the file and printed it conditionally on an errorlevel test which is a nice way of doing things as far as I'm concerned (no messages, it's cool - messages, check it). Does anyone have any idea as to the above problem? Happy memorial day Erik