windows bat file question

[Duncan Booth]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Unfortunately, Google makes it hard to search for such things,
> but after a while I was able to dig up this master reference:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddoc
> s/en-us/percent.mspx 

You will find even more information if you try 'set /?' or 'for /?' at a 
command prompt. As you say, you can now do quite complicated scripting in 
command files but it needs masochism second only to Perl programming.