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Hmm, I tried it again......and it works.

Must have been a bug in command interpreter the previous time



Thank you for the solution and sorry for the confusion

Sorry no.

The problem is that %1 contains from the very beginning a double quotes string like

%1 = "D:\foo\bar\mypic.hpg"

This implicite assignment is not done by me but the WindowsOS when I drap a file onto the batch script

Any other idea?

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Thank you
Peter

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The command output should be shown at the command prompt "as usual".

This loop should be stoppable only by hitting Ctrl+C (or by closing the cmd.exe window by clicking the "x")

Peter

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