From: address@not.available   
      
   John,   
      
   > How, most straightforwardly, can I get the value of S (an alphanumeric   
   > string of   
   > 10 characters) back to the batch file, for example as a local environment   
   > variable   
   > accessible as %FRED% ??   
      
   I think you will find the answer in here :   
      
   https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120731-00/?p=7003   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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