ML> I have not found any escape character that will permit command.com to 
 ML> recognise an equal sign in the set variable.  It's 
 ML> simply a shortcoming of the command interpreter. You 
 ML> can however do precisely what you want under 4DOS (and 

Ok. 

I'm starting to think that the current Maximus 3.02 source code wasn't
meant to be compiled under DOS ... I thougth I'd give it a try to overcome
those compiler memory errors. 

 ML> probably NDOS or DRDOS as well.) (Works for me.)  I 
 ML> have the FreeWare versions 7.50 and 8.0 under my file 
 ML> area 1.GEN on the BBS or on the FTP server in 
 ML> /public/gen1.  File names are as you would expect.  All 
 ML> are virus free and spy-ware free.  Give it a shot and 
 ML> see if that helps you out.

Hmm. I'll hold off downloading those for the time being because as
previously mentioned, Maximus wasn't meant to be compiled under DOS, so
I'll use Windows XP. Things seem to work better under Windows XP.

--- Maximus 3.01