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From: Phil Robyn <probyn AT uclink4 DOT berkeley DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: to pipe system variables other variables at command line
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 06:48:38 GMT
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Kenneth Brody wrote:

> Phil Robyn wrote:
> >
> > Stephan Rink wrote:
> >
> > > I like to pipe a system variables to another variable at a MS DOS shell
> > > without using a file.
> [...]
> > for /f "tokens=*" %a in ('date /t') do set zdate=%a
>
> What version of DOS are you running?  No version I know of has such a
> syntax.
>

This is for WinNT 'DOS' (CMD.EXE, NT's replacement for COMMAND.COM),
since the original poster was using WinNT.

Phil Robyn
Univ. of California, Berkeley