The original line I posted is from the Hyperic HQ 4.0 Beta "hq-agent.bat". (Sorry for not posting the line I made work in cmd but not in tcc) I have checked whether a file was created, which was not the case. The line I used for testing was this one: for /F %v in ('echo...

Thanks for the quick reply I have tried SETDOS /X-8 and that results in the error message not being displayed. When doing this the script however stops working. Hope we can fix this somehow since I would like to be cmd-independent :)

The following line fails when run in tcc/le but not when run in cmd.exe (it is part of a batch file) for /F %%v in ('echo %1^|findstr "^start$ ^stop$ ^restart$ ^install$ ^remove$ ^query$ ^ping$ ^setup"') do call :exec set COMMAND=%%v The errors I get is: FINDSTR: Cannot open ping$...