From: not@this.address.invalid   
      
   On 26/07/2013 14:30, blinkingblythe01@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> It works here when I removed the trailing spaces.   
      
   >> And here is your version which counted up to 50 ok.   
   >   
   >  Thanks. I copied and pasted it to notepad, but I'm still not counting past   
   > one in XP. In Dosbox, and MsDos it works fine. The XP version worked.   
      
   I copied and pasted it from the post I made and here is the output in Windows   
   8.  I called it a.bat   
      
   ===[paste]===   
   Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]   
   (c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.   
      
   d:\abc>a   
   1   
      
   d:\abc>a   
   2   
      
   d:\abc>a   
   3   
      
   d:\abc>a   
   4   
      
   d:\abc>a   
   5   
      
   d:\abc>a   
   6   
      
   d:\abc>a   
   7   
      
   d:\abc>   
   ===[paste]===   
      
      
      
   --   
   foxi   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)