ml> yep... even if the tool does nothing but to emit the DoY number...

 PQ> Nah.  I was thinking of a two-liner, still involving daynbr (which
 PQ> I don't use here) and a tool I use called NSET.  NSET could pick up
 PQ> the output from daynbr and spew it into a %temp%\temptemp.bat file.
 PQ> That's one line.  The second simply runs the %temp%\temptemp.bat to
 PQ> SET the %envar%.  It's a technical solution found long ago in
 PQ> BATPOWER.  I use it here.

yeah, that's similar to the one i posted where the ficticious whatdoy tool
emits the doy number which is redirected to stdout and then saved to a bat
to be called next...

 PQ> However, the environmental constraints that Dallas is hinting at
 PQ> has me confused.

seems that he doesn't or can't run a VM and the old 16bit apps are
[censored] in this supposedly better world of 64bit schtuff :?

)\/(ark