On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:53:59PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote: > That's one of those things I hate about Microsoft as well. I have a program > that records TV for me off a tuner card, and I'd like to run something as > the command after the recording finishes that would convert the mpeg-2 video > into .wav or some other audio. I don't think I could find a script for > Windows, much less Linux, that would convert all the .mpg's in one folder to > .wav's in another and then delete the original video files. :End-Quote: If all you need is a more powerful kind of DOS, you might look into JP Software's 4DOS. They used to have a version of it for Win95, but that was the last time I looked. Haven't a clue what they have now, but the old 4DOS added some 70 batch commands to the mix with a replacement for COMMAND.COM. Made the DOS command line almost as powerful as bash. Michael