O
ouch
I have tried everywhere to find an answer but no one
seems to know.
I had batch utilities that wrote to the dos environment
table but to my disgust XP refuses to let them work
correctly. so I set off to make my own in any dos
language I could find. but the way xp handles them now is
obsured, and down right wrong.
it is IMPOSSIBLE to send environment variables from one
program to another in dos through xp.
setting them with a shell like command to dos loses them
because the shell ends thus reseting the table.
I found a program called setenv.exe to write to the
registry environment table in xp, but cmd only updates
from that when it is closed and restarted.
I tried desperatly to find a way to automate shutting
down and resetting cmd.
useing start doesn't work (even with /I!)
simply executing the file doesn't work
out of despairity I even tried call
how can you make 2 dos programs communicate with
enviroment variables if XP forbids it? this makes batch
files COMPLETLEY Useless.
also set /p and the other "advanced features" are nice
but no where near the complexity I need.
seems to know.
I had batch utilities that wrote to the dos environment
table but to my disgust XP refuses to let them work
correctly. so I set off to make my own in any dos
language I could find. but the way xp handles them now is
obsured, and down right wrong.
it is IMPOSSIBLE to send environment variables from one
program to another in dos through xp.
setting them with a shell like command to dos loses them
because the shell ends thus reseting the table.
I found a program called setenv.exe to write to the
registry environment table in xp, but cmd only updates
from that when it is closed and restarted.
I tried desperatly to find a way to automate shutting
down and resetting cmd.
useing start doesn't work (even with /I!)
simply executing the file doesn't work
out of despairity I even tried call
how can you make 2 dos programs communicate with
enviroment variables if XP forbids it? this makes batch
files COMPLETLEY Useless.
also set /p and the other "advanced features" are nice
but no where near the complexity I need.