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- From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Help Required with Dos variables
- Message-ID: <Zc38wB2w164w@jaflrn.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:58:58 EST
- References: <1ii0moINN62a@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY
- Lines: 32
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- holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
-
- > Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP> writes:
- >
- > >macdonak@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Kevin MacDonald) writes:
- >
- > >> Is there any way to display the contents of a single DOS variable?
- > >> I know you can display all current variables by typing SET, but there
- > >> doesn't appear to be any way to display variables individually.
- >
- > Sure it does!
- >
- > >DOS batch file:
- > > echo %USER% > logfile
- >
- > Yeah, those work, but then you have 'logfile' to deal with. What's wrong
- > with this: 'SET | FIND USER'
- >
- > He's not trying to copy USER to NEWUSER, or he could use:
- > SET NEWUSER=%USER%
-
- If memory serves me correctly, the original message wanted to catch the
- value of variable USER to a logfile so he could track user login's on his
- network...
-
- Jon
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