From: Jorj Strumolo 
Subject: parsing
Date: 1998/04/16
Message-ID: #1/1
Distribution: fido
Organization: Chowdanet! 20gb Amateur Radio BBS (401-331-5587)
Newsgroups: fido.4dos


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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