Hello, Paul;

28 Jan 04 21:35, Paul Quinn wrote to Robert Bull:

 PQ> I wasn't sure how nested FORs worked and remembered something about

 PQ> Ahha!  Here we go.  From Jamie Hermans, posted MArch '95:

Now that's really squirrelling away the data  :-))

 PQ>   for %%f in (h H /?) do command /c for %%g in (// -) do if
 PQ> "%1"==(%%g%%f)...

Nice trick.  I'll make a note of that!  :-)

 PQ> What if I refuse to run anything later that breaks NSET!?!  Jest
 PQ> kiddin'.  :)  I have no hardware here capable of running better than
 PQ> Win95C, which has the last bestest ever DOS, IMHO.

But you might find VARSET gives you even more features  :-)

Filename       Size      Date    Description of File Contents
============ ========  ========  =============================================
VARSET12.RAR     8269  09-08-02  VARSET 1.2 - set environmental variable
                                 with file related data, extract from
                                 filespec, substrings, integer calculation
                                 simple syntax with 16 keywords;
                                 output options. Win NT compatible.
                                 (c) 2002, Horst Schaeffer

 PQ> either.  It was something MM came up with in a moment of pure
 PQ> ingenuity.  :)  He turned out something that could apply any DOS
 PQ> command line against a list of files or directories, contained in a
 PQ> text file listing.  I haven't tried to use it but I'm waiting to hear
 PQ> from Gerry Miller, to see if it fitted his need.

OK.  I don't poll very often nowadays, so maybe I'll hear in the next 
packet.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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