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From: ftg@gatech.edu (Gary Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM DOS System Variables
Message-ID: <17020@gatech.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 88 14:31:25 GMT
References: <1501@ur-tut.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
Lines: 20
Keywords: IBM, DOS, Directories, batch files
Summary: setting env. var. to path

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.


Try something like the following:

set tempvar = %prompt%
set prompt = $p             (Should set prompt to pathname,
set pathname = %prompt%      may need a backspace, $b?)
set prompt = %tempvar%

Or since DOS is full of undocumented features, I'm guessing
that just
set pathanme = $p
might work.


ftg@gatech