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Date:	Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:42:25 +1100 (EST)
From:	DONALD PEDDER <jims_son AT jedi DOT apana DOT org DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: on a related note
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> SET PAR1=%1
> SET PAR2=%2
> SHIFT
> SHIFT

   Yes, this has ALMOST solved my problem. :-) :-(

   I have 25 parameters to pass to the batch file, which then recursively
calls my pascal program with different parameters each time. I was able to
do up to 9 in a single batch file with no problem.

   I tried using this approach to set 25 environment variables, and I got
"out of environment space" after the 8th. The thing is, I was able to
MANULLY set these variables, and after I've set them MANUALLY, the batch
file will work, but with a clean sheet to start with, the batch file only
allocates a certain number before it hits this problem.

   Thinking things might be happenning too fast when run as batch, I put
some gaps between them, but it still failed. I also broke it up into
separate batch files of 8 each, and it still failed after the first one.

   I can't understand why the batch file allocations are failing when I
have no trouble doing it manually (and the bacth file then works after
they've been manually created).

   Any ideas?

   I've started looking around the web for some batch-file sites (given
the lack of documentation with DR-DOS), but I think this would be a rather
unusual problem. It's probably because I have MS-DOS on the laptop. ;-)

Thanks,
  dp.

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