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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 16:36:14 +0000
From: Matthias Paul <MPaul AT calderauk DOT com>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com, paul-ma AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Subject: Re: Variable for ERRORLEVEL
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>However, the implementation differs for several.  For example, 
> %Day_Of_Week% returns Sunday, Monday, etc. in a Novell login script, 
>but Sun, Mon, Tue, and so on in the OpenDOS variable.  
Thanks for the hint.

>I'll bet that's what happened -- COMMAND.COM contains two byte-for-byte
> identical lists of short day-of-the-week names!
No, the doubled mentioning of these strings occurs only in the English version 
of the file. Actually, for improved batchjob compatibility the COMMAND.COM 
of COD7.02B2 also supports a lot of the 4DOS/NDOS alike system info constants (those with a preceeding underscore). Most of them already 
existed in our COMMAND.COM, but under different names. The variables
that have been introduced with Novell DOS 7 return localized strings depending
on the COMMAND.COM language, whereas the 4DOS-alike constants are always in English (not taking localized versions of NDOS into account). 
In the English file both are the same... ;-)

> (I don't know whether or not %Error_level%
>returned the leading zeroes.  I could find out, if anybody cared.)
Yes, please.

Matthias

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