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> From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSW DOT Invalid>
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:00:45 GMT
> 
> Some Unix shells keep the last command name or line in env var $_: do
> any of the Windows shells do anything similar? 

You probably mean the CMDLINE environment variable.  However, I'm
afraid that variable is only updated when a command line is
successfully launched.  In this case, cmd.exe fails, so it will
probably not update the variable's value.  (And it looks like cmd.exe
does not support CMDLINE anyway :-()

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