Local variable not resetting--Win shell

I'm writing a simple script to scan systems on my NT/W2K/XP network for the existence of a particular file and report relative to the file's date.

I want various checks to happen on each loop including one check on the "system" variable %ERRORLEVEL%. What I am finding is that this variable doesn't get reset on each pass

code sample:
FOR /F %%a IN (%1) DO (
IF NOT EXIST "\\%%a\admin$\system32\." ECHO %%a not online
dir "\\%%a\c$\program files\jsconsole\ntcon.bat" | FINDSTR "10/10" > nul
IF ERRORLEVEL 0 (
echo %%a has right file
) ELSE (
echo %%a has wrong file or no file at all
)
)

In this case ERRORLEVEL comes into the FOR loop as one value and won't change inside the loop. Is there a way to refresh the value inside the loop, a sort of local variable? Also, how can I break out of a FOR loop... as in BREAK or CONTINUE in Perl?

Any comments...

BTrail

In my original posting, the line I use could be more clear:

dir "\\%%a\c$\program files\jsconsole\ntcon.bat" | FINDSTR "10/10" > nul

could better read:

dir "\\%%a\c$\file_and_path_to_search" | FINDSTR "search_string"

Hope this helps... the subsequent call to ERRORLEVEL is where I have the trouble and the variable doesn't reflect whether the system "dir" command was successful or not.

B Trail

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