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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS Environment Variable Question
Message-ID: <646@demott.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 21:50:49 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.191910.560@odetics.com>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
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In article <1990Oct1.191910.560@odetics.com> frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow) writes:
>
>I wanted to create a MS-DOS environment variable at boot time off the form
>set TODAY=yymmdd so that other *.BAT files can create backup files and
>other such things.  I looked threw the MS-C manual and found putevn() and
>getenv(), but they seem to effect the PROGRAM's copy of the environment, while
>I want to effect "THE" environment.
>
>Anyone got a good/easy way to do this?


    An easy cheat that doesn't require the use of undocumented system
calls is to write "set today=yymmdd" to a file called "today.bat".  Have
your autoexec invoke your settoday program, then the today batch file.
(Make sure you CALL TODAY, and don't just invoke it directly, unless it's
the last thing your autoexec.bat is going to do).

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