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Very nice, the 'databases' and 'convert' buttons look a little squashed for space so I would make all the buttons just a little wider. Also on EMW3/color the reason for the alternate black and white top/bottom borders is to show the generated colour against the most common background/foreground colo...

Good point.
I can't help thinking there might be an easier way to approach this, but doing a simple search/replace of %1 within %* will fail if %1 is also contained within any other arguments.

n.b. as written this uses the feed for the old forum https://ss64.org/extern.php?action=feed&type=atom
While that should redirect, the new forum has an XML feed at https://ss64.org/app.php/feed

Raymond Chen [MSFT] on wildcards:

How did copying and renaming with wildcards work in MS-DOS?

Glad to be of help

[Edited the thread title to be more searchable]

Also a handy utility for testing this kind of thing is EchoArgs.exe it's part of the PowerShell Community Extensions but also works under the CMD shell.

The default delimiters of the FOR command are a Space, TAB, comma, Equals or Semicolon.

So you will need to add "delims=" to remove those defaults and then %%i will contain everything.

Try like this I think this is needed because the FOR command starts a new sub-shell which removes the outer set of double quotes.

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Today I have reconfigured the search on the forum so that it should now run significantly faster and will no longer ignore 'common words'.

You may still find better results using Google along with site:ss64.org but its a lot better than it was.