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From: wwhite@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS enviroment size
Message-ID: <10279@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 14:15:36 EST
Article-I.D.: teknowle.10279
Posted: Wed Mar  4 14:15:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 05:48:57 EST
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Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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Keywords: subst, lastdrive, path
Summary: Documented where?

> 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
> 
> 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.
> 

Well, I looked up every index reference and didn't find any mention of
substitution for environment variables. I have DOS manuals for 2.1, 3.0,
and 3.1, so if you could tell me what page to find it on I'd appreciate it.

Bill White
WWHITE@teknowledge