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You see the wrong character when you "type" the command file because the file content is Unicode, while the console expects to display in ANSI. Notepad is capable of editing and displaying either, and detects which format to use.

Open in Notepad, click File / Save As, give it a new name and choose ANSI as the Encoding file format. Then you should be able to display the new file contents via Type and get what's expected.

You might want to detect special characters and replace them with Chr() functions so you get what you expect. Also, as Shane pointed out, you can do this directly from Kix..
 Code:
$Cmd = 'command to execute...'
'About to run ' $Cmd ?
Shell $Cmd
'Result: ' @SERROR ?


Glenn
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