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In a previous article, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) says:

>I have a puzzle for you gentle fellow programmers who are interested
>in batch programming. The task is the following.  With the standard
>batch commands write a batch that returns the extension of the
>(file) name given to the batch as the parameter (%1). No external
>commands or programs are allowed to perform the task.
>
>Please post your potential suggestions and solutions in here for
>everyone to see. 

Let me start off by saying that I have no idea how to do that.

But *why* would you want to put yourself through the pain and agony of
doing such a thing, when if you but 4DOS you can just say %@ext[%1] and
be done with it...

Thirdly, I'd still love to see how it's done...

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