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foxidrive wrote:You need to use delayed expansion and then !fname! instead of %fname%
Be aware that it has some limitations: such as ! characters break it.

Or you could set fname=%1 before the loop begins.

That worked! I had never heard of delayed expansion.

Thanks very much for the help.

Wayne

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