From: Gerald Miller 
Subject: parsing
Date: 1998/04/18
Message-ID: #1/1
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Distribution: fido
Organization: 4DOS for one and 4DOS for all!
Newsgroups: fido.4dos


Hello Jorj,

 \|/  Subject:  parsing
 /|\  On Thursday April 16 1998 at 23:41, 
      you wrote to Gerald Miller saying:

 GM>> I have a line in my AUTOEXEC.BAT that points to my ramdrive:
 GM>>   FOR %%a in (TMP TEMP) do set %%a=G:\QWOK

 JS>  Qwok?  And might I ask why you do it this way?  I can see it if
 JS>  there are lots of items to process.  For instance, I do this:

 JS>  for /a:a %i in (cmie dosapp iexplore msacm opera...
 JS>                   progman superfxp system) attrib/eq -a %i.ini

 JS>  when I exit Windows, to clear those annoying archive bits on
 JS>  files that change regularly but generally meaninglessly.
 JS>  But with just two items, it would be shorter to do

 JS>  set tmp=g:\qwok^set temp=g:\qwok

QWOK?  What's in a name?  I set it in my AUTOEXEC and provide a distinctive
name for the many programs that could possibly require any kind of "temp"
environment setting (DOS and/or 4DOS)...  AUTOEXEC doesn't like the command
separator character, so that's out of the question.  I am not about to start
investigating every program that may require a "temp" environment and modify
each batch file; it would be an arduous task and I've not had any failures with
programs NOT recognizing QWOK...

 GM>> I will modify it to include TEMP4DOS...  I was under the impression
 GM>> that this could be set via 4DOS.INI.  I'll remove it from the INI
 GM>> file.

 JS>  It didn't produce an error message in 4DOS.INI?  Odd.  Temp4Dos
 JS>  overrides Temp, but Temp gets used if it doesn't exist, so you
 JS>  really shouldn't have had description-file changing from pipefile
 JS>  deletion before.  Who knows why it happened.

Who knows, indeed!  Every computer is unique.  I ran a '286 system with 4DOS on
it for years...  When I bought my '486 DX4 100, I transferred everything from
the '286 to the '486 and spent about eight months tracking down odd little
quirks and making repairs...  ;^))

              G'Day ... Gerald