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From: mrcheezy@pnet51.cts.com (Steve Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm Plus question...
Message-ID: <830@orbit.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 04:45:12 GMT
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wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) writes:
>>	The only way I know of to assign values to variables is
>>to either get them from the user, set them in the script, or 
>>get them from the host.  I would like to be able to also fetch
>>them from a file or be able to put the return code from a DOS
>>executable in them.
>
>Procomm Plus has file handling and integer math (wow, iterative loops at
>last) and addresses a number of other shortcomings in the Procomm 2.4x CMD
>language.  It also has a few new bugs in it's terminal emulation and host
>mode operation.
>
>I can't speak to your question about ascii file transfers.  I haven't used
>that feature much in either version.


I have come across the very same question about variables in Procomm Plus.  If
anyone has the information, please do tell!!


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