Subj : Daynbr
To : Paul Quinn
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Aug 28 2012 10:55 pm
ml> yep... even if the tool does nothing but to emit the DoY number...
PQ> Nah. I was thinking of a two-liner, still involving daynbr (which
PQ> I don't use here) and a tool I use called NSET. NSET could pick up
PQ> the output from daynbr and spew it into a %temp%\temptemp.bat file.
PQ> That's one line. The second simply runs the %temp%\temptemp.bat to
PQ> SET the %envar%. It's a technical solution found long ago in
PQ> BATPOWER. I use it here.
yeah, that's similar to the one i posted where the ficticious whatdoy tool
emits the doy number which is redirected to stdout and then saved to a bat to
be called next...
PQ> However, the environmental constraints that Dallas is hinting at
PQ> has me confused.
seems that he doesn't or can't run a VM and the old 16bit apps are [censored]
in this supposedly better world of 64bit schtuff :?