From: dallas@texas.usa   
      
   On 6/30/2022 7:11 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote:   
   > In article , Dallas   wrote:   
   >> I had no idea you could have internal subroutines like that.   
   >> You can even use recursion.   
   >> Thanks for the example!   
   >   
   > Note that, in the olden days (COMMAND.COM), you had to do this yourself -   
   > brute force.  I often coded it like:   
   >   
   > if %1X==L10X goto L10   
   > echo main routine - Now calling L10 routine...   
   > %0 L10   
   > goto the_end   
   > :L10   
   > echo here we are in L10 subroutinue...   
   > :the_end   
   >   
   > I assume that the powers that be at MS noticed that people were doing this   
   > sort of thing, so they codified it into the language (in CMD.EXE versions   
   > of the batch language).   
   >   
      
   That is how I have been doing it too.   
   But now I will use the CALL variation as it self-documents so much better.   
      
   https://ss64.com/nt/call.html   
      
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