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In article <1630@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:

}In my autoexec.bat I have 'SET EXINIT=set mo sm wl=5'
}                                                  ^ Note this '=' sign.

}However when I run my autoexec.bat I get SYNTAX ERROR and the EXINIT
}variable is not set.

I have written a program called SETENV which can do this as well as
other things such as interpreting octal & hex constants.  I originally
wrote it because some versions of COMMAND.COM do not permit imbedded
space characters in the symbol value.  (SETENV is based upon a program
of the same name written by Alan J. Myrvold which demonstrated a way
to locate and modify the environment of an MSDOS process' parent).

SETENV has been tested and found to work under MSDOS versions 2.11,
3.2, 3.3 and 4.01; however, I certainly do not warrant it in any way
since it does employ a kludge to locate the parent process' environment:
it searches backward through memory for a copy of the current process'
environment.  I believe it to be reasonably safe, though, as I include
checks to prevent it from overrunning the block allocated for the 
environment so that you will not accidently clobber memory.

SETENV was included in the recent posting of STEVIE V3.69a in
comp.sources.misc from David Tutelman.

}I just learned a new curse: "You #$@! son of SCROLLBAR!"

Well, MSDOS you!  :-)

regards, Larry
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