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- From: bx304@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Epler)
- Subject: Re: A batch programming contest for you
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 16:26:57 GMT
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- In a previous article, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) says:
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- >I have a puzzle for you gentle fellow programmers who are interested
- >in batch programming. The task is the following. With the standard
- >batch commands write a batch that returns the extension of the
- >(file) name given to the batch as the parameter (%1). No external
- >commands or programs are allowed to perform the task.
- >
- >Please post your potential suggestions and solutions in here for
- >everyone to see.
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- Let me start off by saying that I have no idea how to do that.
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- But *why* would you want to put yourself through the pain and agony of
- doing such a thing, when if you but 4DOS you can just say %@ext[%1] and
- be done with it...
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- Thirdly, I'd still love to see how it's done...
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