NT/W2K/XP script loop variable won't reset

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 "search string" > 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?

Any comments...

Brad

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I don't see it looping because you only have %1 in the ().

Maybe your problem is that "if errorlevel 0" means ZERO OR MORE so it's always true.

Maybe you need something like this:

if errorlevel 1 do this && goto ENDchk
if errorlevel 0 do that && goto ENDchk
:ENDchk

DC4