> Maybe put in quotes? In some circumstances you can put things in double-quotes at a DOS command-line to enclose "special" characters, but that doesn't always work and different versions of DOS do things differently. Probably the simplest example of this is enclosing a long-file-name (at least if it contains spaces) in double-quotes.
But, as Eric noted, the double-quote character does some unexpected things when used with a SET command (like not even needing a closing quote). Enclosing things in quotes won't fix the problem, at least not consistently across all DOS versions. E.g., I just did a couple of simple tests in both MS-DOS 6.22 and 7.1: SET "Test=8" creates an environment variable named "TEST with the contents of 8". I also did: SET Test=Test=8 SET "Test=Test=8" and got syntax error messages in both versions of MS-DOS. *** In FreeDOS 1.2: SET "Test=8" does the same things as MS-DOS. But in FreeDOS 1.2: SET Test=Test=8 creates (correctly, IMHO) an environment variable called TEST with the contents of Test=8, and: SET "Test=Test=8" creates an environment variable called "TEST with the contents of Test=8". Bottom line is that FreeDOS (at least version 1.2) doesn't work the same way as MS-DOS, but I'm not 100% sure which way is "buggier". _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
