Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!odetics!frank From: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: TODAY set in the environment Message-ID: <1990Oct15.192124.8507@odetics.com> Date: 15 Oct 90 19:21:24 GMT Reply-To: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow) Distribution: na Organization: Odetics, Inc., Anaheim, CA Lines: 17 Hi All, I recently posted a request for help on finding/adding a string to the DOS environment of the form "set TODAY=yymmdd". Several of you mailed or posted replies all of which are greatly appreciated. ONE PERSON saw through the way I had posted the request and answered my problem rather than the question that I posted! His suggestion was to write an VERY simple "C" program to create the file TODAY.BAT with the string "set TODAY=yymmdd" inside of it and execute the program and then the *.BAT created by the program as the last two items of my AUTOEXEC.BAT. Simplicity itself! (I am sorry, I lost the username by the time I realized it really WAS the answer to my question.) Thanks Frank