@ECHO OFF REM By Brian Williams REM hieyeque1@gmail.com SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION CALL :GETCR CALL :TWIRLY GOTO :END :TWIRLY SET _SPINNERS=7 SET _SPIN=30 SET /P _DUM =Check this out ...!_CR!NUL SET /P _DUM =Who hoo........................... !_CR!NUL PING 127.0.0.1 -n 1 >NUL ) ) ) ECHO Ok, that's enough. PING 127.0.0.1>NUL GOTO :EOF :GETCR rem subroutine returns a variable called _cr that contains the carriage return FOR /F "TOKENS=*" %%A IN ('IPCONFIG') DO ( SET _CR=%%A ) SET _CR=!_CR:~-1! GOTO :EOF :END