Hmm... I copy/pasted that directly from Notepad into empty code brackets, but there are twice as many carriage returns shown in what I've pasted.
The text in Notepad looks like this-
That may be something that Notepad does.
Here are three screen shots. The first is taken at DOS after the ping -n 1 command, and then displaying the output file.
The second is what the output file looks like opened up in Notepad.
The third is what the output file looks like after copying in Notepad and then pasting into MS Word. This third file is also what it looks like when pasting from Notepad into the empeg bbs. (I deleted the superfluous line feeds from my previous post.
In any case, I don't think the extra line feeds in the display of the output would matter, because the way the batch script works is that it "finds" a line with a key word, then acts on it.
I've asked Paul if he has any ideas...
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