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Article #1492Re: Another MsDos batch programming challenge
From: n liu
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:58
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:58
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yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil) writes: >If you really care you could wrap it so that it could be invoked >several times. But even so, this is not the remedy of all batch file >problems. One has to use 4DOS or write a real program for all the ^^^^ :-) >serious stuff. Batch file tricks are just like three-legged races. >Slow, funny and cumbersome yet challenging and sometimes even >quite funny. Once again, MsDos batch programming is such a challenge ONLY because command.com is such a piece of crap. I have yet to see a batch programming challenge that can't be be done in one line with 4dos (usually). set cd=%_cwd -- nyet@cco.caltech.edu nyet@aerospace.aero.org
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!nyet From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Another MsDos batch programming challenge Message-ID: <1992Sep13.225833.1665@cco.caltech.edu> Date: 13 Sep 92 22:58:33 GMT References: <1992Aug29.063552.26386@uwasa.fi> <1992Aug29.152816.14977@cs.ubc.ca> <FRDQB0DG@dri.com> <1992Sep13.194215.24100@cs.ubc.ca> Sender: news@cco.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: punisher