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Ed:
You are an excellent guy.
The script works perfectly.
Nice work and thank you for doing all this for me.
It was above and beyond.
Nice to know there are some of you "extra mile" helpers out there.
Many many thanks.
Bob

Ed:
Nearly there.. "nov" shows up.
I don't think it will matter about the first letter not being capitolized.

But can you perform the substitution of this routine into my original code?
I don't know what it replaces nor where it goes.

I just noticed its saying Month '15'

crap.. sorry to be a pain, but its still coming up blank.

Ed.. am I being stupid?
There wasn't any code with your last post .

when I run your latest offering.. the MonthName is blank ( ' ' )

what I meant was that the year is irrelevant.
my files don't care.

Ed:
Ok.. looking better.
Now Make the month not 11 but Nov and drop the year.
My files are like:
Nov01.txt
Nov22.txt

That's what has to match up.
And.. I know I sound like a dunce, but I don't know how to implement this into my code.
Bob

Ed:
I might have spoken too soon.
I noticed in your code, there are 2 pauses.
I only get to the first one.. which shows the date.
I don't get a pause in your script for the second one.
bob

If you run the Date part of my original code in a XP box, you can see how the date is obtained then used in the operation.
bob

Ed: Getting there.. your code DOES retrieve the date, but my code is looking for it to be: Nov04 I think. (you can read the code better than me) Can you retrofit your code (with the proper format) into my code and let me try it? I appreciate your time here. You might be close to a solution for me. (...

thank you Ed.
I'm going to play around with this.
I'm also (as I said) looking into the VM solution which might prove adequate.
Again.. THANKS !!!
bob

I'm looking into a solution that would allow me to run XP MODE on my Windows 7 machine.
I wonder if that would allow the batch to run

keep in mind that I'm not a DOS programmer.
What ever you are willing to do for me will have to be pretty much "ready to try".
bob

would you be willing to rewrite the code so it works?
How much if so ?
bob