On Monday 07 April 2003 01:09 pm, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> > there is a c: hardcoded in at least one of the batch files
> > therefore put the code somewhere on your c: drive or search for
> > the c: and change to the appropriate drive.
>
> I just did a scan, and found the c: in SRC_GET.BAT.  Argh, if CMD
> would only let you pass the output of one command as a parameter to
> another.

You can:

for /f "usebackq" %%i in (`some command`) do some other command %i

> Or, if the CD command allowed you to pass a complete
> pathname instead of a path only on the current drive.

You can:

cd /c d:\xyz

Of course, both require a proper cmd.exe (command.com need not apply).

But then MS-DOS and the Win3 derivatives (Win9x) are increasingly
irrelevant anyway.

--
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com
GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE

--
http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic:
[PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads