This page is no longer maintained: I no longer have access to real DOS or Win9x.
The information here is obsolete - don't even try to apply it to Win9x or NT series batch files.
Real World Batch Programs
These are actual batch programs using utilities I have written in other languages and other people's utilities as well. The links are to the real documentation pages that are part of my workgroup's database. In many if not most cases, the programs involde scripts in TAWK and/or Winbatch and/or those in free languages. Some of the TAWK scripts can be proted to GAWK or even MAWK, but many of them rely on the exceptional memory management and/or true multi-dimensional arrays and/or special features. WinBatch scripts can usually be ported to other Windows aware languages. Some are pure batch programs. The ones presented here are only a sample.