Subj : Re: Redirecting TEXT in Take Command
To   : Joe Caverly
From : Charles Dye
Date : Tue Jan 01 2002 04:52 pm

From: raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye)

On 1 Jan 2002 15:38:53 -0800, jlcaverlyca@yahoo.ca (Joe Caverly) wrote:

>Hi,
>  I'm using;
>
>Take Command/32  2.02B   Windows 95 4.00
>Take Command/32 Revision B (131)   Windows 95 Build 1111   B
>
>I have the following batch file;
>
>TEXT | set _option = %@SELECT[con,1,1,25,80,"Test of Text"]
>Option 1
>Option 2
>Option 3
>ENDTEXT
>
>According to the Take Command help file, I should be able to re-direct
>the output of the TEXT command, which this batch file does. However,
>it opens a new instance of Take Command to do so. Thus, the _option
>environment variable is not returned in the environment from which the
>batch file is launched.
>
>Is there a method which will allow me to set the _option environment
>variable, and to NOT launch a new instance of Take Command?

@echo off
TEXT > foo.txt
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
ENDTEXT
set _option=%@SELECT[foo.txt,1,1,25,80,"Test of Text"] del /q foo.txt

     - - -

@echo off
TEXT > clip:
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
ENDTEXT
set _option=%@SELECT[clip:,1,1,25,80,"Test of Text"]

(Both tested under TC32 3.01, not 2.xx, sorry.)

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