Message-ID: <396D0344.83788EA9@bestweb.net>
From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody AT bestweb DOT net>
Organization: Kenneth Brody and filePro
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: to pipe system variables other variables at command line
References: <3957018F DOT 35C44125 AT gmx DOT de DOT de> <3959A07F DOT FB5A37A6 AT uclink4 DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 24
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:49:09 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.179.3.146
X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role <abuse AT bestweb DOT net>, We Care <abuse AT newsread DOT com>
X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 963445749 216.179.3.146 (Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:49:09 EDT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:49:09 EDT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Phil Robyn wrote:
> 
> Stephan Rink wrote:
> 
> > I like to pipe a system variables to another variable at a MS DOS shell
> > without using a file.
[...]
> for /f "tokens=*" %a in ('date /t') do set zdate=%a

What version of DOS are you running?  No version I know of has such a
syntax.

-- 

+---------+----------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Kenneth |       kenbrody AT bestweb DOT net       | "The opinions expressed     |
|    J.   |                                  |  herein are not necessarily |
|  Brody  | http://www.bestweb.net/~kenbrody |  those of fP Technologies." |
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------------------------+
GCS (ver 3.12) d- s+++: a C++$(+++) ULAVHSC^++++$ P+>+++ L+(++) E-(---)
    W++ N+ o+ K(---) w@ M@ V- PS++(+) PE@ Y+ PGP-(+) t+ R@ tv+() b+
    DI+(++++) D---() G e* h---- r+++ y?