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From: dale@wucs1.wustl.edu (Dale Frye)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Recursive Windows
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.062054.27946@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 06:20:54 GMT
References: <11299905@91014.153634YTHPRGDB@mtus5.bitne> <1097300003@cdp>
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
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In article <1097300003@cdp> jeff@cdp.UUCP writes:
>
>Create a batch file called WIN.BAT.  Assuming that Windows is
>installed in C:\WINDOWS, the batch file should say:
>
>if "%windir%" == "" c:\windows\win %1 %2
>
>Make sure that this batch file is NOT in the C:\WINDOWS
>directory; it should be in another directory, one which
>appears in the PATH before C:\WINDOWS.  If you can't
>control PATHs, you'll need to do something clever,
>like rename win.com.

This won't work!  windir is stored in the enviroment in lower case.
The above command will first convert windir to upper case before looking
in the environment. I know because I tried to do what you suggested.

My fix --

Rearranage the path command so that the path to your batch files are before
the path to the win program. Create a win.bat file like this.

@echo off
if "win"=="yes" exit
set win=yes
c:\windows\win
set win=no
c:
cd \


Now change the the program name for the DOS window to "C:\command.com".

Note: Set disk and directory names as needed. I used C:\ as an example.
      The only thing important is to keep out of the directory that
      contains the real win.com program.

Dale Frye
Washington University in St. Louis