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On Monday, in article <826509414snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>
     philip@siberia.demon.co.uk "Philip McNab" wrote:

PM> John, I've never used NT, but is there any trick under it that
PM> allows you to have command-line macros, as you can do under
PM> MessDOS v5+, or 4DOS?

Not sure.  I may have a dig around.  Ta for the thought.

PM> I just wonder whether if NT is treating the batch file as a child
PM> process and refusing to inherit upwards or something like that.

It does seem rather like that.  Perhaps a side-effect of all this
wonderful insulation and crash-proofing between processes.

On Monday, in article
     <vK$8sLA90JRxEwgI@dowrmain.demon.co.uk>
     ian@dowrmain.demon.co.uk "Ian Wade" wrote:

IW> Does "CALL X" work?

Dunno.  But having to type that would somewhat reduce the
benefit of having brief names for the batch files.

I now have a novel solution to the problem.  The client, after
four contract renewals, has had a reorg and the manager has
no budget for me.  I have 10 days left on this contract.
So I'll look for somewhere that doesn't use NT.   :-)

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John Washington