Category : Batch File Utilities - mostly for DOS
Archive : ABFS.ZIP
Filename : ADVBAT14.TXT
Output of file : ADVBAT14.TXT contained in archive : ABFS.ZIP
Environment for use by the caller is a great advantage in favor of
using CALL instead of COMMAND /C to invoke batch files as subroutines,
as we can (now) pass back status information and the like!
If a BATCH file can place its results in the ENVIRONMENT when that is
desired, why not use a PROGRAM (invoked via CALL) to do the same thing?
Well, it works, and gives us a way to solve the other perennial batch
file problem, how to get true "variables" into the current batch file,
rather than just ERRORLEVEL holding a single keystroke!
But, let's save that for DEMONSTRATION SEQUENCE 3, and not do it here.
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/