From:	dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk
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To:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos] speeding up command.com
In-Reply-To:	cwg01@gnofn.org's message of Mon, 03 Feb 97 17:34:15 -0600.
	<Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970203172927 DOT 24246F-100000 AT sparkie DOT gnofn DOT org>
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Date:	Tue, 04 Feb 97 09:51:36 +0000
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>> demon-batch-coder-from-hell and do all your work in COMMAND.COM. 
>
>Hmmm, ya almos de'scribe me!  I have 44 batch files on my machine
>totaling 77,585 bytes, guess how many of them is _under_ 4k?

Yeah. Batch files are cool. With a few little utilities, like awk, you can do 
great things with them.

	echo %f% | awk -F\ "{print \"set l=\" $NF}" > %temp%temp.bat
	call %temp%temp.bat
	del %temp%temp.bat

...is a useful code scrap I use for extracting the leafname of a directory 
path. awk is wonderful (even in DOS).


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