It is NOT a bug, as we already explaind.
What I find more interesting, is for someone who has more posts than I do under their belt, you sure seem very wet behind the ears.
As explaind to you earlier, mainly for security reasons to lessen various script exploits, you cannot start a command with a %variable or $identifier. If you wish to set the value of a %variable in the command line, the required method is to /set %var DATA or /var %var = DATA. The ability to %var = DATA is a luxury available only within script files.
- Raccoon