hi!

i would like to make a copy of a folder to a mapped network folder. i have a MS-DOS 6.22 (standalone!) PC. the folder name changes dinamically and it is written in a file called PRUEFNR (is automatically generated by an instrument connected to the PC). The file PRUEFNR contains only a line and there is written a number, "84235" for example. this is simple done on a W2K system with this batch file go.bat:

GO.BAT listing:
for /f %%l in (pruefnr) do set folder=%%l
copy c:\fpmc\%folder%\*.* v:\%folder% /x
set folder=

unfortunatelly the command For in MS-DOS 6.22 (Standalone!) does not support the /f option. Does anyone how to do? What it has to be done is to list the file PRUEFNR and use it's content as input to the batch file GO.BAT. I also tried with pipes, redirections, but did not succeeded :-(. i would like to solve without third party tools.

I'm lost.

Is this one BAT or two?

Are you passing it a file or directory name?

M2

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

A little inconsistancy here. A mapped network drive on a standalone computer.

Hi wizard-fred,

Yeah, don't remember much about Novell but I used to make lastdrive=v to leave 4.

The inconsistency that threw me was file / folder.

M2

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

I would like to create only one batch file. What I'm passing is a folder name. It is stored in the file PRUEFNR. The PC is connected to a network. The mapped network folder is called G: (I said "standalone" to say that it's a MS-DOS 6.22 OS and not a DOS shell of 9X/NT.. sorry)

MS-DOS uses Directories not Folders!

At the end I had to write a QuickBasic program...

:-(

There is a trick to using pipes and redirection for getting the contents of a text file into an environment variable, at least in XP.

When I get to work tommorrow, I will test it out in 6.22 and see if it works there as well. If it does, I will let you know.