I understand that you quote input to join space delimited input.   
      
   batch.cmd "this is one arg" second third   
      
   Quoting also works with   
      
   set /p ans=Enter   
      
   Is there any way using set /p to collect all the args without asking the   
   user to quote?   
      
   At the command line I could do this inside the file,  set all_ans=%1 %2 ...   
   but with set there are no positionals, %1.... %n are empty.   
      
   I also tried out copy >con, but here the user has to know how to terminate.   
      
   I appears quotes must be used, but I decided to ask since you guys seem to   
   have all the answers.   
      
   Thank you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)