dan gookin....goodkin, whatever, the guy who writes the dummys books, wrote a book named, oddly enough, 'batchfiles' if you can get your hands on that, ohhh man!

But in the mean time their are a few tuts here on ao

And goole turns up some great returns:

http://www.ericphelps.com/batch/

what do you want to do with them?