Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ubvax!scott
From: scott@ubvax.UB.Com (Scott Scheiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: '=' on command line to .BAT files
Summary: I've got a patch to PC-DOS 3.10 COMMAND.COM for this
Keywords: equal sign .BAT
Message-ID: <7791@ubvax.UB.Com>
Date: 17 May 88 00:39:58 GMT
References: <300@fxgrp.UUCP>
Organization: Ungermann-Bass Enterprises, Santa Clara, CA
Lines: 24

In article <300@fxgrp.UUCP>, ljz@fxgrp.UUCP (Lloyd Zusman) writes:
| Consider the following fragment of a .BAT file intended to run under
| DOS3.3.  Assume the file is called MAKEIT.BAT ...
|     ...
|     c:\bin\make %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
| 
| The problem arises when I want to invoke my .BAT file like this:
| 
|     MAKEIT SOMETHING=WHATEVER           (note the equal sign)
| 
| The equal sign screws things up, as DOS seems to treat it as an argument
| separator....   Is there any hope of getting around
| this problem with equal signs while using a .BAT file?

Out of frustration I fugured out a simple patch to PC DOS 3.10 a long
time ago, to solve this very problem.  (Actually it wasn't so simple
using DEBUG for the first time, without DOS listings!)

I don't know if it is still applicable on newer versions of DOS (I still
use 3.10 :-) ).  But I'd be happy to share the details--if anyone's
interested, send email.
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