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Answer» Hello, It's been 4 years... So what? I stumbled upon this thread today and found both replies useful. Quote from: mplichta on March 23, 2012, 09:59:01 AM There is one more important distinction to note. Normally the command prompt, and therefore cmd files, don't support UNC paths. I don't think you are correct. This should work just fine Code: [Select]xcopy "\\server\share1\*.txt" "\\server\share2\" and this too: Code: [Select]pushd "\\server\share\software\adobe CS5" msiexec "\DP 32bit Basic\Build\DP 32bit Basic.msi" /q popd More specifically, cmd.exe (including executed .bat files, .cmd files, etc.) does not support the current/working directory to be a UNC path. pushd gets around this by assigning and switching to a drive letter that is mapped to the target path, and most other programs (commandline or not) work PERFECTLY fine with a UNC path. Quote from: patio on March 23, 2012, 10:00:55 AM It's been 4 years...Quote from: patio on March 23, 2012, 10:00:55 AM It's been 4 years... I wonder if this topic will be dredged up again in 2016. Judging by it's history...i'd say that's a safe bet... Seeya then...Not quite 2016 yet, but I found this very helpful. Quote from: patio on March 23, 2012, 10:00:55 AM It's been 4 years...Batch is slow... Quote from: foxidrive on October 18, 2012, 09:23:30 AM I wonder if this topic will be dredged up again in 2016.Close enough.This thread helped me out with a batch script at the end of last year. Thank you so much! Quote from: foxidrive on October 18, 2012, 09:23:30 AM I wonder if this topic will be dredged up again in 2016. Sonofagun....you were correct.... LOL Like the Matrix Oracle ...would you like a cookie It's had a good run - but I might be 6 foot under in 2020 I'm just here for 2017, don't mind me. Quote from: foxidrive on October 18, 2012, 09:23:30 AM I wonder if this topic will be dredged up again in 2016. Even after 4 years...... *** sigh *** Quote from: foxidrive on January 05, 2016, 03:01:11 AM It's had a good run - but I might be 6 foot under in 2020RIP my friend.As the former Dias de Verano, can I say (a little early) happy 10th anniversary to this thread! Tell good 'ol Diaz i said Hi...... He says hola, mi amigo! Quote from: Squashman on March 17, 2018, 10:03:07 PM RIP my friend.When did he pass away? Thursday Nov 3rd 2016. Don's Topic Dostips Topic Quote from: Geek-9pm on March 18, 2018, 02:16:42 PM When did he pass away?Shortly before you said how sad it was. Foxidrive Quote passed away on Thursday 3rd November 2016My memory is fading. Could somebody put a note in his profile? Quote from: foxidrive on January 05, 2016, 03:01:11 AM It's had a good run - but I might be 6 foot under in 2020Not quite 2020, yet, but I registered in late 2019 just to say that this thread was useful to me. I was trying to understand what pushd "%~dp0" ment, I googled it, and now I understand it because of this thread. Only 14 days from 2020 lol! thank you, contributors to this post, and a posthumous thank you and RIP to foxidriveRIP... I have been around PCs all my life. I have been in IT for 20+ years and have never came across %~dp0 before. No idea why. I am glad I came across this post to better understand this hidden gem. Thanks for the info everyone. This thread helped me about two years ago (august 2018 WTD), but DUE to thread policy I head to wait until 2020 to reply Thanks GUYS!! Quote from: patio on March 23, 2012, 10:00:55 AM It's been 4 years...It's been... another 4 years... I using a MiSTer FPGA to run a DOS core, and looking into batch scripting, but just cannot figure out how to get the path to the currently active directory. I cannot get %~dp0 to work either... but trying to experiment some more. I am trying with FreeDOS, DOS 6.22 and DOS 7.1. But I guess I have to make sure I did try all of them.%~dp0 and things like %cd% are part of the NT Extensions that were added to the command prompt with Windows NT4. the "cd" command by itself outputs the current directory, but I don't know a way you can get that into an environment variable without utilizing things like QBASIC.Somehow i knew in the back of my mind it would be Dias ressurecting this one... Who is that masked man ? ? Quote from: rajubhaiya on September 17, 2020, 04:21:44 AM
You are not the "former Dias de Verano". Hey Mike, hope all is well. Good to see you back.We can forget about 2020 right Quote from: Caldor on August 05, 2020, 07:54:58 AM It's been... another 4 years... Resurrection time! Works with MS-DOS 7 and I have no reason to think it won't work with (say) 6.22 Code: [Select]echo off >temp1.bat echo PROMPT SET _CD=$P >temp2.bat command /c temp1.bat call temp2.bat del temp1.bat del temp2.bat echo currentDir=%_CD% |
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