You guys know a lot more about command line parsing than I do! I've come 
across another oddity perhaps someone could explain. Using the following:

FOR /F %%G IN ('dir /b /a:-d O:\PICS\*.*') DO echo %%G

I should get each filename echoed on the screen (a prelude to bigger and 
better functions). The single quotes tell it to take the output of the 
dir cmd. No matter where I put dbl quotes, and I've tried it everywhere, 
any filenames with spaces drop everything after the first space.

Even
FOR /F %%G IN ('"dir /b /a:-d "O:\PICS\*.*""') DO echo "%%G"
causes it merely to quote the incomplete name.

7zip has the unfortunate habit of taking c:\my_name and interpreting it 
as meaning ANY folder in the entire tree with that name. So, these 
filespecs that are given to it broken become foldernames it looks for 
everywhere. It's made for some interesting results, but the real targets 
don't get what's due them.

Thanks again,
-Skip
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