ljz@fxgrp.UUCP (Lloyd Zusman) (05/15/88)
Consider the following fragment of a .BAT file intended to run under
DOS3.3. Assume the file is called MAKEIT.BAT ...
@echo off
...
...
c:\bin\make %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
...
...
In other words, MAKEIT.BAT does arbitrary setup stuff, invokes a 'make'
program with the command-line arguments passed to MAKEIT.BAT, and then
does some arbitrary cleanup stuff.
The problem arises because sometimes I want to invoke my .BAT file
like this:
MAKEIT SOMETHING=WHATEVER
^
^
note the equal sign
The equal sign screws things up, as DOS seems to treat it as an argument
separator.
I'm well versed in programming and am very capable of writing an
equivalent program to MAKEIT in some language or another, thereby
avoiding this problem. However, is there any hope of getting around
this problem with equal signs while still using a .BAT file?
--
Lloyd Zusman
Master Byte Software
Los Gatos, California Internet: ljz@fx.com
"We take things well in hand." UUCP: ...!ames!fxgrp!ljzscott@ubvax.UB.Com (Scott Scheiman) (05/17/88)
In article <300@fxgrp.UUCP>, ljz@fxgrp.UUCP (Lloyd Zusman) writes: | Consider the following fragment of a .BAT file intended to run under | DOS3.3. Assume the file is called MAKEIT.BAT ... | ... | c:\bin\make %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 | | The problem arises when I want to invoke my .BAT file like this: | | MAKEIT SOMETHING=WHATEVER (note the equal sign) | | The equal sign screws things up, as DOS seems to treat it as an argument | separator.... Is there any hope of getting around | this problem with equal signs while using a .BAT file? Out of frustration I fugured out a simple patch to PC DOS 3.10 a long time ago, to solve this very problem. (Actually it wasn't so simple using DEBUG for the first time, without DOS listings!) I don't know if it is still applicable on newer versions of DOS (I still use 3.10 :-) ). But I'd be happy to share the details--if anyone's interested, send email. -- "Ribbit!" Scott Scheiman (408) 562-5572 Ungermann-Bass, Inc. ` /\/@\/@\/\ scott@ubvax.UB.com 2560 Mission College Blvd. _\ \ - / /_ ...uunet!ubvax!scott Santa Clara, CA 95050
jcmorris@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Joseph C. Morris) (05/18/88)
In article <7791@ubvax.UB.Com> scott@ubvax.UB.Com (Scott Scheiman) writes: > >Out of frustration I fugured out a simple patch to PC DOS 3.10 a long >time ago, to solve [the problem of COMMAND.COM treating the equal sign >as a delimiter] How about posting it? There are several people who I've heard from who would like to be able to use the entire character set in parameters. My problem has been with the semicolon...are there any other characters we need to know about? Along that line...what patches have people found necessary for DOS? In addition to this one for the delimiters, I've seen references to the ^W/^U cancel command, and I've patched IBMBIO.COM to select the CONFIG.SYS file at boot time. (And yes, Microsoft, we do understand that the system can change and invalidate the patches.) Maybe a posting of the changes people have installed could be passed back to the folk at Microsoft for inclusion with the next release...