>>That's another story, since in your sample you try assign the string to the variable in one line. If you have a string with CRLF's in it, you can use this code to save it

>>strtofile(lcOut, chr(13)+chr(10),'')

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>You meant
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strtofile(chrtran(lcOut, chr(13)+chr(10),''), "test.bat")

>Seriously reconsider Lutz's advice about that beer :).
>
>I know the feeling. Yesterday I took a nap and, as usual, during those 15 minute naps weird dreams come. I saw command window and what I was typing, and every couple of lines I'd make some mistake like that, got deurinated at myself, and decided I need some sleep, so I went to do so. In that sleep within the sleep I dreamed nothing, and woke up (from both, nothing left on the stack) quite rested :).

Right! Thank God it's Friday tomorrow. :-)