From: and4rew2@turnquist.name.invalid   
      
   Thought I would ask here before diving into writing a program...   
      
   I'm looking for a way to assign the output of a program (or contents   
   of a file would suffice) to an environment variable, similar to bash's   
   backtick substitution.   
      
   The batch file I'm trying to write will be running on a MS-DOS 6.2   
   machine.   
      
   Thanks for any suggestions.   
      
   --Andrew   
      
      
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   Andrew Turnquist, Rochester, New York, USA   
      
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