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- From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Another MsDos batch programming challenge
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.225833.1665@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 22:58:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug29.063552.26386@uwasa.fi> <1992Aug29.152816.14977@cs.ubc.ca> <FRDQB0DG@dri.com> <1992Sep13.194215.24100@cs.ubc.ca>
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- yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil) writes:
-
- >If you really care you could wrap it so that it could be invoked
- >several times. But even so, this is not the remedy of all batch file
- >problems. One has to use 4DOS or write a real program for all the
- ^^^^ :-)
- >serious stuff. Batch file tricks are just like three-legged races.
- >Slow, funny and cumbersome yet challenging and sometimes even
- >quite funny.
-
- Once again, MsDos batch programming is such a challenge ONLY because
- command.com is such a piece of crap.
-
- I have yet to see a batch programming challenge that can't be be done
- in one line with 4dos (usually).
-
- set cd=%_cwd
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