Hi Al,

Do any other bat files run on the machine?

Cheers,

Andrew

>I e-mailed a .ZIP file of FP tables etc. to a client. I also sent a batch file, UNZIP.BAT, which calls PKUNZIP to expand the contents to a certain folder. The client complained that when she double-clicked on UNZIP.BAT, it didn't run properly, reporting "Bad command or file name" instead.
>
>The batch file, if working properly, is supposed to display a title and copyright notice (via ECHO ...) and give the user a chance to continue or abort (via PAUSE), before trying to do anything else.
>
>I had the user copy the files to a diskette, and fire up a DOS box on her W98 machine. She logged into drive A: and ran the following commands:

A:\>dir
>  - contents of drive A: displayed, including UNZIP.BAT
>
>A:\>type unzip.bat
>  - contents of UNZIP.BAT displayed correctly on the screen
>
>A:\>unzip
>  - "Bad command or file name"
>
>A:\>unzip.bat
>  - "Bad command or file name"

The batch file title and copyright notice do not appear, it seems clear that her machine is not attempting to run the file at all.
>
>Ideas, anyone?