>>what do you mean by macro substitute the whole thing? I'm not sure I understand.. Thanks.
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>How about writing the line out to a .BAT file and then RUNning the .BAT

This may be the way to go, because I'm not sure it the DOS limitation to 128 chars per command line still holds. Probably having a .cfg file is far better, since one is never sure if such a long sausage of a command line will go through.