JammerJoe

Good stuff. Thanks again!

Just tried allen2 's suggestion and that seemed to do the trick (will try jaclaz's in a moment). Thank you both for your help.

Hello all, ran into something peculiar...within a Windows/DOS batch I have to write a series of key-value pairs to disk. No a big problem except when I do this: echo InstallAsService=0>> props.file That results in the line being displayed at the command line (without the zero) and NOT written to the file. I tried this (adding a space in between the 0 and >>) echo InstallAsService=0 >> props.file It gets written to file. Unfortunately the consumer of the file is expecting a 0 with no spaces right after it. So of course he doesn't pickup the zero. So the question is how can I write a key value pair to a file where the value is zero and have no trailing space after it? Seems quite doable but it's not immediately obvious to me. Thanks in advance.