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Jorge, This is a little bit of a kludge, but it works for your situation. @echo off for /f "usebackq tokens=1,2 delims=:" %%a in ("file.txt") do for /f %%b in ("%%b") do set "var-%%a=%%b" set "var-sizeondisk=%var-size on disk%" set "var-size on ...

Your code works here in XP Pro. This uses carlos' BHX.EXE tool to create this file, and an extra command to use makecab to shrink the source file into a .cab file. Thanks foxidrive, glad to know that it works in XP. I'll have tested carlos' BHX and found that only one file is encoded. I'm currently...

Hi to all, I have seen in this forum some different methods to attach binary data to the script and to extract/decode it. Some of them use hexadecimal dump and other base64 encoding. But base64 encoding is a bit more space efficient than a hex dump. I've seen base64 decoding using certutil. Here the...

Hi again, Thanks for your kind welcome, and for pointing me what is obvious. Also I think you have corrected the typo of the title from brwoseable to browsable , thanks again. Mod(erator I guess) said Your description of the script and it's aims and operation is terse - and this is to add an alert a...

Hi to all, first post. I've trying for a long time to build browse-able menu batch files like those old DOS utilities you may remember. I've been around this site for a long time, for I'd not written batch since ages ago, to remember and to learn from all the wonderful stuff you share here. Thank yo...