Subj : A bracket or two...
To   : Steve Quarrella
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Thu Oct 26 2000 03:30 pm

Hi! Steve,

On 25 Oct 00 14:10, Steve Quarrella wrote to Paul Quinn:

 PQ>> It would be nice to be able to refer to DOS environment variables,
 PQ>> again.  Any clues, please?
 SQ> If you have something like SET FOO=C:\BAR, can't you do something 
 SQ> like $FOO in the appropriate field, which FE will then interpret as 
 SQ> C:\BAR?

You had me going there for a few minutes.<sfx: wags finger>  I thought maybe I 
had read the help/dox incorrectly and was suffering under the delusion the 
brackets were required, when they weren't really.

The on-line help says (in part):
     -----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8-----
 A special  feature  of  FastEcho  is  that  macros  like
 '$[FD]' can be used.  These macros will be translated at
 run-time using the current definition of  the  specified
 environment variable. For example $[FD]NETMAIL with SET
 FD=C:FRODO will  be  expanded  to  C:FRODONETMAIL  at
 run-time.
     -----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8-----

My FeSetup.Exe refuses to accept the bracket characters, absolutely.  My setup 
used to work, but now 5 years later I don't use a FrontDoor mailer or even a RA 
BBS any more, so, my DOS paths are all different.  The paths have to be 
hardcoded instead of being flexible... for each node/task.

Does yours accept brackets?  Anynoe else's?  Or is it a FAQ and there's some 
sort of fix for it?

Cheers,
Paul.

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