Don't know - I haven't tried. We ended up working around it by manually running the commands in the batch file (a lot of fun, dictating the commands over the phone for the user to run in the DOS box).

However, based on everything I know about the command prompt, I see no reason to believe another batch file would work differently. That's why I'm having such a hard time with this :-)

>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?