Hi,

I have read your post a number of times and I am not clear what you are trying to achieve, so a few questions and hopefully I might have a solution.

Are you saying you can only run an...

Hi Mittelgeek,

Should the dir /b have a /s also to get subdirectories ?

Also should *.* be *.tql as pink_zippy only wishes to ren .tql files ?

Denis

My apologies hwit if I upset you.

Pardon me - this is exactly what is in my post 22 days ago

Here is a dead simple way, copy and paste this to your batch file and give it a try, then add any additional files you wish to copy to the batch file.

@echo off
copy ...

Hi

Would you explain how this works please, I thought I knew DOS commands quite well.

I have tried this from command prompt on and XP machine and I get 'The system cannot find the file 1.'
...

I have worked it for you, here are the steps

1) do this once Ping > basefile.txt

This puts results of ping in a file - must be ping that works.

2) then batch file should be

echo off...

As it will run in middle of night, if it always works with 90 seconds delay then I would go with that.

Just had a thought - when it is up and running can you test for the exstance of a file (have...

Sorry I thought you saw it run, so you could cancel it

If you do a ping -t 192.168....

Then it will continue pinging until you hit CTL C - you will therefore see when it comes up and continue when you are ready.