SH>  My question is, what's the best way to deal with this? 
 SH>  I was thinking (And you batch file gawds
 SH> please help me here) in the runbbsx.cmd I want to check 
 SH> to see if a file exists
 SH> (Say c:\temp\tinysbbs.rep) and if so run the .cmd file 
 SH> that has all the -j keystrokes in it.

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if exist c:\temp\tinysbbs.rep runbbsx.cmd
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