In a message to John Thompson, Ted Menks wrote re: Bat/btm/Extension

JT> Sure.  Try "for %a in (*.pas) do pret %{at}name[%a]" instead.  But
JT> why not just use an "executable extension?"  Put a
JT> ".pas=pret.exe" line in your environment and then your .pas files
JT> will automatically be passed as a parameter to pret.exe
 
TM> The "executable extension" trick is not such a wise idea
here, since that will
TM> not strip the .pas extension from the passed-on parameter to pret.exe...
TM> Apart from that, officious thinking ;-)

OK...how 'bout this:

.pas=pret.exe %{at}name[%0]




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