HI folks,   
      
      
   Maybe I'm a bit slow on the uptake but this imho should   
   work.   
      
   USing Timo from FInland's little tool basexten.exe to   
   capture the extension of a file to an environ var.   
   Say in this case, the current nodelist, so we capture it as   
   an environ var of 091 as %BASEXTEN% when called for.   
      
   So then we try to look for   
   if exist NODELIST.%BASEXTEN% goto yes   
   goto nope   
      
   OF course "yes and "nope" indicate to us which we got.   
      
   I've found this before iirc when trying to look for a file   
   with an extension indicated by an environment variable.  OF   
   course this is dos 6.22.   
   THoughts anyone?   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   --- timEd 1.10.y2k+   
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