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Article #4110Re: DOS batch quirks and environment variable weirdness.
From: Steve_Kite
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 1990 13:56
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 1990 13:56
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You're evidently not familiar with 4DOS, a command.com replacement. It allows you to read the date and/or time and set them up as enviornment variables. This way they are accessible from any program. It also lets you parse out any part of the string that you want. My autoexec.bat file reads the date, parses out the day, and sets the prompt accordingly, so I can have a different prompt for each day of the week. It also takes the date, parses out the year, figures out which anniversary, etc. it is, and reminds me of it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ If a jimbuck stands alone by the sea, on a night when the ~ ~ dark moon sings, how many grains on sand in a single one of ~ ~ his footprints? ~ ~ ~ ~ steve kite - hp-ptp!stevek - stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpcc05!hp-ptp!stevek From: stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve_Kite) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: DOS batch quirks and environment variable weirdness. Message-ID: <1400056@hp-ptp.HP.COM> Date: 19 Oct 90 13:56:36 GMT References: <1990Oct15.102216.15639@csun.edu> Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca. Lines: 19