ml> FWIW: everything, other than the new coding of an app for this, is
 ml> all 16bit stuff... everything in BATPOWER that might help you seems
 ml> to be but it is possible that i've overlooked something...

 PQ> Just a guess... I think the poor fellow is having trouble with the
 PQ> so-called 'advanced' version of Windows, on the loose these days. 
 PQ> Any old DOS tools that might have set/changed a DOS %envar% no
 PQ> longer works.  There is a way around it...

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

eg:

{at}echo off
echo checking the DoY...
echo set doy=>doy.bat
whatdoy>>doy.bat
echo setting the DoY...
call doy.bat
echo the current DoY is %doy
:end

that should still work... the key factor being that the output from the
ficticious whatdoy tool is written to stdout so that it can be redirected
to the .bat file which is called later...

of course, one might also look at what might be done with the winwhatever
scripting stuff... i've always had a large central main controlling .BAT
file... in my environment, it could be converted to REXX which is another
scripting language available on my system... i would imagine that
winwhatever's scripting stuff should be able to do the same? what's it
called? VBS?

)\/(ark