TODAY set in the environment

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From: Frank Merrow
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 19:21

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Hi All,

I recently posted a request for help on finding/adding a string to the DOS
environment of the form "set TODAY=yymmdd".  Several of you mailed or posted
replies all of which are greatly appreciated.

ONE PERSON saw through the way I had posted the request and answered my
problem rather than the question that I posted!  His suggestion was to write
an VERY simple "C" program to create the file TODAY.BAT with the string
"set TODAY=yymmdd" inside of it and execute the program and then the *.BAT
created by the program as the last two items of my AUTOEXEC.BAT.  Simplicity
itself!  (I am sorry, I lost the username by the time I realized it really
WAS the answer to my question.)

Thanks

Frank

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From: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow)
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Subject: TODAY set in the environment
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Date: 15 Oct 90 19:21:24 GMT
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