echo off rem I am a harmless DOS Batch script for Win32. rem Do this before I will run: rem 1. Rename me as 'safe_script.bat'. echo Hello! I am a DOS Batch script. echo I am running on this OS: ver echo These are my network interfaces: ipconfig /all echo Here is what all I can do in DOS: help echo And now I will call a Win32 binary executable with an argument. start iexplore.exe http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm echo I have just made MSIE pop up with some info on DOS Batch. echo All that is cool enough, I suppose. But you still might rather echo learn to use a real programming language instead. Like this one: start iexplore.exe activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ echo Now I've popped up a 2nd MSIE window with info on Perl. echo Goodbye.