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Have been studying the script to understand its components and how it flows and am curious: (a) what is the function of the carat (^) in CreateObject("WScript.Shell"^) (b) I gather that "echo check watch.out" is checking for the presence of watch.out, but in doing internet search...

Thanks, foxdrive, will give this a try and get beck to you if having problems.

I had registered. Dropbox was asking for your email address. Finally figured out how to get and send a link.
Hope it works.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/35xegnx6il6l4 ... ction.zipx

Sorry, but when dropbox asks me to enter a valid name or email address, what do I enter?

I have a simple batch file: echo on AutoIt3_x64.exe watch24.au3 that runs successfully if I put it and the associated exe and .au3 file in a folder on my HD. But if I try put it into a network drive and try to run it, I get: 'path of the network drive' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the ...

3) m This is the batch file I hope will run the exe. The first echo supplies the name of the input file. The exe seems to start, then abort after the fourth echo input, when it tries to open the input file and cannot find it. Please note that the fifth echo ("") is an attempt to simple ent...

Posted this response about 8 hours ago but don't find it in thread, so here goes again:
Three files are at dropbox links as follows:
1) https://dropfile.external.slb.com/cgi-b ... d=vSMiTObm
This is the exe (a public domain code)
2) https://dropfile.external.slb.com/cgi-b ... d=g3NdLrCv
This is the input file to the exe

The third link will follow in next post.

Thanks, have downloaded AutoIt and am evaluating for use.
In the meantime, being new to this forum and with only modest experience in other forums, it is not clear to me how to post a copy of the executable.

This is in Windows 7 but I hope XP will apply. Am trying to use a .bat file to supply answers to a series of prompts that come from an .exe file (compiled Fortran; don't have the un-compiled code and don't know the compiler used). The form of the batch file is: (echo w.in <this is name of input data...