Re: Wording too dense? OK?

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

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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