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   Harry Potter to pedro   
   Re: Parsing path in batch file?   
   13 Dec 13 05:59:26   
   
   From: rose.joseph12@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:07:35 PM UTC-5, pedro wrote:   
   > On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:32:02 -0800 (PST), Harry Potter   
   >  wrote:   
   > >On Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:01:42 PM UTC-5, Robert Roland wrote:   
   > >> Does it have to be batch? Batch on DOS based machines is quite puny   
   > >> stuff.   
   > >>   
   > >Understood.  On the DOS computer, I could use VBDOS Pro 1.0 to do my work,   
   but that doesn't help on the Win98 computer.   
   >   
   > Why not?  I use non-Pro VB-DOS 1.0 (there wasn't any other version   
   > number) in Win98SE all the time, and have written commercial apps in   
   > it on that platform for DOS and Win(<=4) platforms.   
      
   It can be done, but what about the long filenames?   
      
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