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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Environment Variables
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.212803.5326@uwasa.fi>
Date: 20 Nov 89 21:28:03 GMT
References: <5679@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <5679@wpi.wpi.edu> mhampson@wpi.wpi.edu (Mark A. Hampson) writes:
>I am wondering if anyone has tripped across a way to set an MS-DOS
>environment variable from within a program that is still in the 
>environment table when the program terminates.
>
>I am trying to store the current directory path name in an environment
>variable.  I am willing to approach this two ways:

I have solved this very problem in my non-resident pushdir / popdir
batches.  You can obtain them by anonymous ftp from our site.  They
are part of my /pc/ts/tsbat12.arc package. 

>If anyone has any great ideas on this could you please EMAIL them to me
>as I do not read this newsgroup regularly.

Sorry, no.  I prefer to post, since there always may be others who
might be interested in the same problem.  (No offence meant, but I
have often wondered about these offhand postings, where the person
doing the posting is not interested enough to follow things trough.)

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
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