Re: [Mingw-users] W9x stupid command.com

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Hi John,
you're right; works perfect! even without quotes! 
quotes only needed when blanks in the string (normal, 2nd arg).
thanks very much for this tip!

Guenter.

> I think that in 9x you have to put two '%' characters on the command line
> to get one to pass through as an argument and supress the interpretation
> of
> variable interpoplation, kind of like '\' characters in C string
> constants.
> Try %%y%%d%%m.

> John

> Guenter Knauf wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> >> > getdate %Y%m%d
>> >> > this works fine on NT/2K, but with W9x it doesnt work;
>> >> > seems that command.com breaks the argument when the second %
>> >> > appears.
>> >> >
>> >> > any ideas?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Yes.  %Y% get's translated to mean the value of environment variable Y
>> >> leaving m%d (or perhaps just m) passed to getdate.  I don't know why
>> >> it
>> >> would work on NT/2K, IMO, it should fail there also but I haven't
>> >> tried
>> >> it.
>> >>
>> >> Earnie.
>> >>
>>
>> > It does work on NT, using either cmd.exe or NT version of command.com.
>> > Have
>> > you tried enclosing string in quotes?
>>
>> > getdate "%Y%d%m"
>>
>> yes, all; with one, two, three and four quotes...
>>
>> have also just tested this:
>> SET TFORM=%Y%m%d
>> with W98 the environment var has as value only 'm%d'; but with NT this
>> works also...
>>
>> seems that the only workaround for W9x is using another character instead
>> of % and then substitute in the program...
>> or hardcoding some format strings and then select with a switch;
>> grrrr....
>>
>> Thanks, Guenter.

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