>>Hi
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>>I need to install an old FPD26 system to a user's machine. I've written a .bat to unzip everything from a WinZip folder and that works fine. But I want to put a batch file that sets up the DOS environment ( CD \... and all that) then invokes the exe. I've tried the folowing:
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>>copy "c:\techprog\dcm\nfg_tick\farebase.bat" "C:\Documents and Settings\all users\desk top"
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>>copy c:\techprog\dcm\nfg_tick\farebase.bat C:\Documents and Settings\all users\desk top
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>>and gone the "...\Docume~1\" route (but I don't know how to 8.2ify the "all users" folder bit.
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>>Anyway none of them seems to work. Any advice?
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>>'ppreciate it
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>>Terry
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>To find the 8.3 names, start DOS, and use DIR /X

Thanks Tore. Didn't know that one (I remember the olf /w and /x switches)