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From: raymond@pepto-bismol.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: Current directory from batch file
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Date: 8 May 90 00:32:38 GMT
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In article <90May7.072047edt.19230@me.utoronto.ca> sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes:
>I couldn't think of any combination of genuine DOS commands that can 
>accomplish that task.

Closing my eyes and thinking real hard, I came up with this:

Create a file that contains three characters. "c" "d" <space>.
No trailing CR+LF!  Put it in \usr\lib\cdspace

Your batch file does this:

	copy \usr\lib\cdspace \tmp\cdspace.bat
	cd >>\tmp\cdspace.bat
	... do whatever you want ...
	\tmp\cdspace

Doesn't use the "call" command, so should even work on DOS 2.0.
If you're clever, you can even teach cdspace.bat to erase itself when
it's done, but it's no big deal leaving it in the \tmp directory,
since everybody has a "del \tmp\*.*" in their autoexec.bat, right? :-)