Subj : Re: Redirecting TEXT in Take Command
To   : Charles Dye
From : Joe Caverly
Date : Tue Jan 01 2002 11:06 pm

From: jlcaverlyca@yahoo.ca (Joe Caverly)

Hi;
  The clip: didn't work, but the foo.txt worked in my version of Take
Command. Thanks for your assistance.

Joe

raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye) wrote in message 
news:<3c32587e.7137616@news1.nmia.com>...
> 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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