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Re: Help Required with Dos variables

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From: Jon Freivald
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:58
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holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:

> Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP> writes:
> 
> >macdonak@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Kevin MacDonald) writes:
> 
> >> Is there any way to display the contents of a single DOS variable?
> >> I know you can display all current variables by typing SET, but there
> >> doesn't appear to be any way to display variables individually.
> 
> Sure it does!
> 
> >DOS batch file:
> >    echo %USER% > logfile
> 
> Yeah, those work, but then you have 'logfile' to deal with.  What's wrong
> with this:  'SET | FIND USER'
> 
> He's not trying to copy USER to NEWUSER, or he could use:
> SET NEWUSER=%USER%

If memory serves me correctly, the original message wanted to catch the 
value of variable USER to a logfile so he could track user login's on his 
network...

Jon

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From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Help Required with Dos variables
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:58:58 EST
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