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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: DOS enviroment size
Message-ID: <808@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 23:25:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 23:25:34 1987
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Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
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In article <667@ubvax.UUCP> scott@ubvax.UUCP (Scott Scheiman) writes:
>Last I heard, the %environment-name% mechanism (which many today have
>correctly posted only works within batch files) is undocumented, so like
>/e:nn in the SHELL command and the various commonly-known DOS patches
>you should use at your own risk.  I can vouch that the %...%
>substitutions work fine in both DOS 3.2 and 3.1.

UNGH!  Wrong!  We have enough problems with undocumented stuff without
someone telling people that other things that ARE documented aren't.
Just yank your DOS manual (not even the tech ref) and look up "batch"
in the index.  Sure is documented!  I don't know about dos's before
v2.11 (because I never met one) but everything 2.11+ has it.

OK, now that that's out of my system, the rest of the suggestions were
pretty good.

>While clunky and lacking in some ways, I've found it's possible to go a
>long way with DOS.  You just need to play with it a while.

Yup.  Happy hacking.

>"Ribbit!"     Scott (Beam Me Up, Scotty!) Scheiman   Industrial Networking Inc.
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