Question regarding the title command

[wolfess]

Can you do string concatenation  with the NT command 'title'?

I would like to concatenate the username (from %USERNAME%) with a title string.

Thanks,

Steve

[Sidewinder]

Yup.

title %username%  Command Window

Put in any leading or trailing spaces you may need.

Hope this helps.

[mikepan]

*off topic
How do you reformat your computer, thank you for helping.

[Dusty]

Hello Mikepan

Please don't ask a question about a different subject on someone else's post.  

Please post your question about formatting in the Windows forum if you intend formatting then re-installing a Windows OS.

If you intend just re-installing  a Dos OS then ask in the DOS forum.

Always, but always, give some info about your pc even if it's just to say what OS you are using.

Many thanks & looking forward to being of some help to you.

[wolfess]

Sidewinder,

   Excellent help you provided.  For those interested the following code works perfectly:

@echo off
cls
set _friendlyName=%username:.= %
set _titleString=6 MDG Logon Window -- Hello %_friendlyName%
@title %_titleString%

[wolfess]

Oh, one point of explanation.

cls
set _friendlyName=%username:.= %

::  The above code takes the dot out of the username
::  Our logon name format is fn.ln
::  The _friendlyName variable is a transform with
::  the dot replaced by a space

set _titleString=6 MDG Logon Window -- Hello %_friendlyName%
@title %_titleString%

Thnaks again for the help!