Thank you, those commands are usefull and im sure to put that page to good use, but… they are not a list of the avaliable batch file (.bat) commands list. In fact they dont even mention a single batch file command that i have found by shere experimentation… eg: commands like if echo for type goto, ect… i have gotten some of these to work but i determined they have far greater limitation than any oyher version of dos i have worked with. I love programming bat scripts but i need to know what MagicDosBox allows. I am really hoping to read contents of a file into an environment variable to use for saving and loading story text based games that id like to make.