Hi! mark,  
    
  On Tue, 28 Aug 12, you wrote to me:  
    
   PQ>> Any old DOS tools that might have set/changed a DOS %envar% no longer  
   PQ>> works. There is a way around it...  
    
   ml> yep... even if the tool does nothing but to emit the DoY number...  
    
  Nah.  I was thinking of a two-liner, still involving daynbr (which I don't  
  use  
  here) and a tool I use called NSET.  NSET could pick up the output from  
  daynbr  
  and spew it into a %temp%\\temptemp.bat file.  That's one line.  The second  
  simply runs the %temp%\\temptemp.bat to SET the %envar%.  It's a technical  
  solution found long ago in BATPOWER.  I use it here.  
    
  However, the environmental constraints that Dallas is hinting at has me  
  confused.  
    
  Cheers,  
  Paul.  
    
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