Re: Wording too dense? OK?

Subject: Re: Wording too dense? OK?
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:01:49 -0700

Peter Neilson wrote:

>
> BUT PERHAPS IT'S NOT UNIX AT ALL!
>
> That something is named xxx.bat indicates that we are within the MS-DOS
> (or Windows) environment, as does the pathname with backslashes (\) in it.


Good eye, Peter.

Picking up on your point about bat files and path syntax, I don't see
anything in the OP's example that preclude its execution under DOS,
which allows environmental variable declarations with this syntax. And
there's nothing that makes the example obviously a Unix shell script.

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FWD: Wording too dense? OK?: From: TECHWR-L Administrator
Re: Wording too dense? OK?: From: Susan W Gallagher
Re: Wording too dense? OK?: From: Peter Neilson

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