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From: jcmorris@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Joseph C. Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: '=' on command line to .BAT files
Keywords: equal sign .BAT
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Date: 18 May 88 16:49:03 GMT
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In article <7791@ubvax.UB.Com> scott@ubvax.UB.Com (Scott Scheiman) writes:
>
>Out of frustration I fugured out a simple patch to PC DOS 3.10 a long
>time ago, to solve [the problem of COMMAND.COM treating the equal sign 
>as a delimiter]

How about posting it?  There are several people who I've heard from who 
would like to be able to use the entire character set in parameters.
My problem has been with the semicolon...are there any other characters
we need to know about?

Along that line...what patches have people found necessary for DOS?  In
addition to this one for the delimiters, I've seen references to the ^W/^U
cancel command, and I've patched IBMBIO.COM to select the CONFIG.SYS file
at boot time.  (And yes, Microsoft, we do understand that the system can
change and invalidate the patches.)

Maybe a posting of the changes people have installed could be passed back
to the folk at Microsoft for inclusion with the next release...