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|    Tom Del Rosso to All    |
|    FOR variable shows size of folder...some    |
|    03 Aug 24 21:08:01    |
      From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com              Weirdness...              This happens in a batch and also at the command prompt:              for %a in (C:\CAS) do echo %~Za       0              The above is consistent.       This is not:              for %a in (\\e1\BU1\20240714\C\CAS) do echo %~Za       12288              But it says 0 the first time...sometimes.              So network folders have this size value that FOR sometimes shows.              It's not a problem for me because I don't need the number, but I wonder       what the number means. It is not the size of any file in the folder, and       it doesn't seem conssitent with what the space occupied by the folder       itself should be.                     --       Defund the Thought Police              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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