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From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM DOS System Variables
Message-ID: <1286@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 88 03:02:27 GMT
References: <1501@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps)
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Organization: Indiana University Computer Science Department
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Keywords: IBM, DOS, Directories, batch files

In article <1501@ur-tut.UUCP> nsto@ur-tut (Natalie Stone) writes:
>Is there a way to assign a variable from within a batch file to be
>equal to the current directory name so it can then be used in
>the batch file.

   Not really with just MS-DOS batch files. It is possible to do from a
high-level language like C, or with assembly language. If you don't want
to program it yourself, there are PD programs available from various places
that do pretty much what you are asking (I assume you want to save the current
directory, then change to another directory, then return to the original
directory). On Unix the commands pushd and popd are used for this purpose.
Pushd saves the current directory, and lets you change directories, whereupon
the popd command will take you back to the original dir. I've seen similar
PC programs called pushdir and popdir which will accomplish this. If requested
I can post them easily, as they take up less than 1K of disk space. On second
thought, I'll do it anyway, so please don't send me requests for them. I don't
want to be more swamped with mail than I already am. Look for them in the
comp.binaries.ibm.pc group soon.

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