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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:00:28 -0700
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Chris Walters wrote:
>> `cygpath -w /`
> 
> This is fine, but how do I use the result in a DOS bat script? 

The short answer is: Get a real shell.

The long answer is: While there may be some hack to trick a Microsoft 
command shell into setting an environment variable from a command's 
output, it seems to me that it would be a lot easier to port your BAT 
file to Bash.  There's certainly nothing in the cmd.exe "SET" 
documentation about doing this.

About the only time that only a BAT file will do is for autoexec.bat.


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