that is fantastic.. both of you could upload those files to megaupload.com and/or mediafire.com so people(myself or anybody) can download them. they are great sites. You don't even need to register to upload the file. It will provide you with a link you can post here, for people to...

It is good.. thanks!

I see comp.os.msdos.4dos goes back a bit.

I see.. thanks!

with 15 years and 250,000 licenses.. I notice the forum is quite young.. But there must have been many questions and answers given over the years.. Is it archived anywhere? Is it all lost? The earliest question I see in one of the forums is May 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even...

I couldn't quite get that working. But from what you said, I managed to get it working!! I looked at FOR /? and indeed FOR /F can take a command. It's nice that this works in NT command prompt (even without 4DOS) C:\>for /f %f in ('echo abc') do set yy=%f (it worked, yy right at the bottom...

thanks, that does work nicely.. I am wondering though how I could have found that myself.. I learnt DOS 6.22 by going through HELP.COM, I must have gone through everything item listed there alphabetically, there weren't -that- many, and each thing had examples there. I can see I would...

this is peudo-batch (as in pseudo-code but in batch) of what I want! But I don't know the exact 4NT code to do it. c:\>echo abc| %yyy (I expect a variable called yyy to contain abc) so c:\>set .... yyy=abc I want to be able to redirect output of a command to an environment variable I did...

hi is there any 4dos or 4NT forum or mailing list? I see a forum for "take command" and for other things.. but not for 4DOS or 4NT I am mostly interested in 4NT specifically