Re: Another MsDos batch programming challenge

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From: Kevin
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 18:22

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In article <qzhn!6f.resnicks@netcom.com>, resnicks@netcom.com (Steve Resnick)
says:
>In article <1992Aug29.152816.14977@cs.ubc.ca> yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil)      :
>writes
>>ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>>
>>Following my tradition of suggesting dirty tricks here is my 3
>>lines version:
>>
>>cd >> %0
>>echo echo %%set%% >> %0
>>set set=^Z
>>
>This is the output, when I run FOO.BAT:
>        cd >> foo.bat
>        echo echo %set% >> foo.bat
>        set set=
>Cheers!
>Steve

   Hello all !  I won't pretend to be a master of batch files (I have almost
no idea what the above two examples are doing) but I do know there is an
undocumented DOS command TRUENAME that returns the name of the current
directory.  Is there a way to set an environment variable to what this
returns ?  (TRUENAME is suppossed to be given a file name as an argument,
and it returns the full name of the file, by the way).

Kevin Furrow (f13@psuvm.psu.edu)

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:22:30 EDT
From: Kevin <F13@psuvm.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Another MsDos batch programming challenge
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