Re: Another MsDos batch programming challenge

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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:37

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This is an old trick:

@echo off
echo set cd=%%2 >directory.bat
dir >tmp~tmp.bat
call tmp~tmp
del directory.bat
del tmp~tmp.bat


This should put the current directory in the environment
variable CD.

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