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From: perry@omepd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS enviroment size
Message-ID: <475@omepd>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 15:53:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 15:53:47 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Mar-87 20:02:02 EST
References: <2091@ncoast.UUCP> <409500003@prism> <2986@iuvax.UUCP> <2771@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <119@homxb.UUCP> <2778@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
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Reply-To: perry@inteloa.intel.com (Perry The Cynic)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
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Keywords: DOS environment substitutions
Summary: %name% environment substitutions work only in batch files

In article <2778@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> holtz@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Fred Holtz) writes:
>In article <119@homxb.UUCP> singhal@homxb.UUCP (S.SINGHAL) writes:
>>PATH=c:\;c:\this\that;c:\work\bin
>>PATH=%PATH%;c:\this\also;c:\ramres
>>PATH=%PATH%;c:\thats\all
>
>I tried this under PC-DOS 3.1 with no luck.  I like the construct; what
>DOS are you using to achieve environment variable substitution?
>
For some inscrutable reason, environment substitutions (%name%) work only
during batch file execution. If you try them on the keyboard, it just ignores
you...


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