From: nickoffsmailbox@gmail.com   
      
   Hello. I had planned to use the following 'SET /P' check in a batch file I   
   intend to be used on both 9x and NT systems until I tested it on Windows 98SE   
   (a Windows Virtual PC VM running on Windows 7 x64 should it matter) and it   
   failed with a 'Bad command    
   or file name' error.   
      
   @ECHO OFF   
   SET INPUTCMD=   
   ...   
   SET >nul <%0 /P INPUTCMD=Test if SET waits for input   
   CLS   
   IF NOT ".%INPUTCMD%"==".@ECHO OFF" GOTO:NEXTTEST   
      
   To my amazement I worked out it was tripping up on the string compare, that it   
   would fail if any part of either string included "ECHO OFF" or "ECHO ON". How   
   truly bizarre!   
      
   Two questions spring from that. First, can anyone suggest an alternate way of   
   testing for SET /P besides the obvious solution (ensuring something other than   
   ECHO OFF|ON is on the first line of the batch file), and second, are there any   
   other string MSDOS    
   7.x/8 are known to choke on in a similar manner?   
      
   Cheers, Nick.   
      
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