bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (03/03/87)
>> >PATH=c:\;c:\this\that;c:\work\bin >> >PATH=%PATH%;c:\this\also;c:\ramres >> >PATH=%PATH%;c:\thats\all >> >> I tried this under PC-DOS 3.1 with no luck. I like the construct; what >> DOS are you using to achieve environment variable substitution? >> >> Fred Holtz > >The above construct works ONLY in batch files and NOT at the DOS level. As >far as I know it works in DOS 3.1 also. > >---Sharad Singhal I have also tried this in MS-DOS 3.1 (Zenith release). Only from batch file(s), as I was too lazy to want to retype things as I experimented. No luck, though. In fact, it blows up and tries to drop me into the machine monitor (which is what Zeniths have instead of cassette BASIC). It also clobbers enough of the keyboard code that I have to do a warm restart. Not to change the subject, ("Hah!") but I've just recently run into an oddity (read "bug") with the v2.0 release of PKARC. It has created some archive files quite nicely, but when I try to update/freshen/delete something in them, it tells me that the archive is READ-ONLY! This has happened with and without the /oc switch. PKARC v1.2 has no problems with the same archives. This has happened on the last three or four archives I've tried to update, which may be all the ones I've tried with v2.0 -- my usage patterns are uneven. Personally, I think I'm giving up on v2.0 and I'll stick with v1.2 until the hopefully-debugged v2.1 (or whatever) appears. PKXARC v3.4 seems quite serviceable, though, and I much prefer its syntax over v3.3. ...Bob Montante...