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From: ghettocow (ghettocow_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/16/04


Date: 15 Aug 2004 21:49:47 -0700

I have a batch file that reads a text file and displays certain
strings back using the 'findstr' command. Some strings that the batch
returns contain HTML code. The string looks something like this:

Important text1:

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