Stuff I've Learned About Windows

• Use "call" to call a batch file from inside another batch file, or the called batch file will not return control to the calling batch file upon completion!
  
  So imagine this is test-1.bat:
  
  echo "This is test-1.bat"
  test-2.bat
  echo "Back in test-1.bat"
  
  And this is test-2.bat:
  
  echo "This is test-2.bat"
  
  Executing test-1.bat will produce the following output:
  
  This is test-1.bat
  This is test-2.bat
  
  To ensure that control returns to test-1.bat after test-2.bat is done, rewrite test-1.bat as follows:
  
  echo "This is test-1.bat"
  call test-2.bat
  echo "Back in test-1.bat"
  
  
• Windows has a limit on the length of the path - 256 characters. While this might sound like enough (to the MS folks at least), it is not if you have a deep hierarchy of intuitively named directories. It took me a couple of days of frustrating research to figure out that I'm getting inaccurate results not because of bugs in my program but because of OS limitations!