Hello, Paul;

20 Jan 04 19:47, Paul Quinn wrote to Gerald Miller:

 PQ> I don't normally do multiple FORs.  If you want to nest FORs, then you
 PQ> will have to employ a second batch CALLed (via Command.Com /C..., I

I usually CALL the second batch...

 PQ> think) from the FOR, etc, etc.  To assign a line at a time to a
 PQ> variable, I'd use NSET or LMOD, by Horst Schaeffer.

I'd avoid NSET now, because it won't work under recent Windows.  Check out 
VARSET, which is a work around plus much more.

 PQ> Alternatively, I can offer a batch tool posted by Michael Marquart in
 PQ> May '97 that can execute *any* DOS command against a list of files, in

Which one is that?  I still have a copy of an early PC-Magazine utility 
called APPLY which does this kind of thing, but it's getting less useful 
with LFNs and so on.

 PQ> (Re: NC...)
 GM>> There was a development team in Germany that were working on the
 GM>> beta of Version 5.0, but it never saw a public release (as far as

The OFM Paradigm page said there was/is a WinGUI version in Europe, but 
it's expensive for not much advance.  TC sounds a better bet.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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