From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Kenny,   
      
   >>How do I provide all arguments starting from the second one to the   
   >>program ?   
   >>   
   >>Currently I just use "program.exe %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9" and be   
   >>done with it,   
   >   
   >I think it is just a limitation of DOS batch that we all have to   
   >resign ourselves to living with.   
      
   :-)  That is what I am trying to figure out : /is/ it a limitation, or is   
   there something available I'm currently not aware of.   
      
   To be honest, I consider %* not honoring SHIFT to be a bug, greatly   
   diminishing the usefullness of it.   
      
   > There are quite a few alternatvies to plain DOS batch at this point   
   > in time, so you could switch languages.   
      
   Batch is just too handly to me for basic stuff, especially when you want to   
   have everything running in the same console (instead of having each   
   executable in the script run in its own shell window.)   
      
   > Or you could do something like:   
   [snip script]   
      
   I was considering something of the same, but in the past found batch rather   
   finicky when handling strings.  Hence I'd rather do as little as possible of   
   it   
      
   Thanks for the suggestion though.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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