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In article <1992Aug19.045036.5132@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.233207.1159@cs.ubc.ca> yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil) writes:
>>I am away from my DOS machine now, but I think that the above ideas
>>will work after some polishing. 
>>
>>	erase echo.*
>>	copy %1 echo.*
>>	for %%f in (echo.*) do %%f > ext 
>>
>>The extension of %1 should be in the file ext now.
>>
>>Joseph (Yossi) Gil                 {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!yogi
>
>@echo off
>rem That's a very inventive trick, Yossi.  I expanded a bit. The snag is
>rem the the file must exist in order to get the extension. Another
>rem question is how do you get the extension name into an environment
>rem variable so that we can utilize it.
>
>if not exist %1 goto _out
>if exist echo.* erase echo.*
>copy %1 echo.* > nul
>for %%f in (echo.*) do %%f > ext
>type ext
>if exist ext erase ext
>:_out
>
>..................................................................
>Prof. Timo Salmi
>Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
>Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
>Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland

I've solved it, but it's not an elegant solution. I've maybe
cheated a little bit too. I've used some of Yossi's ideas above.

To make it work, you will first have to create a file containing
set %1=
with no LF or CR. To do it, write "copy con bat" then type
"set %1=" and press F6.

ok, then over to the batch file I've made.

md ext.$$$
copy %2 ext.$$$\echo.*
cd ext.$$$
for %%a in (echo.*) do %a>ch
copy ..\bat+ch batch.bat
call batch %1
del echo.*
del ch
del batch.bat
cd ..
rd ext.$$$

This should work I think. If you want this batch file and
the special file to be in a special directory, just
modify the copy ..\bat....... line.

I really hope someone has got a better solution, but this works.
The big problem is that dos always insist on adding cr.

Stig
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