Microsoft KB Archive/97609

= CONVERT.BAT Fails with a Syntax Error if You Are Running NDOS =

Article ID: 97609

Article Last Modified on 11/21/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q97609



SYMPTOMS
The Conversion Disk for users of the Stacker CONVERT.BAT file does not run with Symantec's Norton Utilities NDOS command interpreter. If NDOS is loaded when you try to run the conversion program, it fails before any actions are performed and displays the following error message:

Syntax error &quot; \dblspace.exe&quot;

Deleting a:\zz.bat

1 files(s) deleted

The MS-DOS Stacker conversion program cannot continue because it could not find your copy of the DBLSPACE.EXE file. The DBLSPACE.EXE should be located in the directory that contains your MS-DOS files.

Add your MS-DOS directory to your search path, and then run CONVERT again. (For information about changing your search path, type HELP PATH at the command prompt.)



CAUSE
The problem occurs when the GETPATH.BAT file (called by CONVERT.BAT) issues the following command because NDOS does not accept the semicolons in the current path as separators:   for %%f in (%PATH%) do call zz %%f

Additional query words: 6.00

Keywords: KB97609

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