From: rose.joseph12@yahoo.com   
      
   Sorry: pressed the wrong button!  :(   
      
   I want to write some batch files on a Win98 computer (and perhaps a DOS   
   laptop) and need to parse a path passed to it via a parameter.  For example, I   
   want to compress files to .gz format and delete the original or compress .ADF   
   files to .ADZ format.  To    
   do this, I need to parse the parameter and, for example, change the   
   extension.  WinNT has special functionality to handle this, so it's either   
   create a separate program to capture the needed data into an environment   
   variable or write a code file to do    
   the task.  The former will probably blow on my computer because, when I added   
   an environment variable in Windows mode, the batch file running returns an out   
   of environmnt space error.  The latter is too time-consuming to be worth it.    
   Any other    
   suggestions?   
      
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