Re: Writing to the Environment ?

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JRS: In article <OivGXl1dFHA.2688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dated Wed, 22
Jun 2005 20:33:26, seen in news:microsoft.public.scripting.wsh, Torgeir
Bakken (MVP) <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@xxxxxxxxx> posted :
>Dr John Stockton wrote:
>
>> I know, more or less, how to write a script A.js or B.vbs, to be
>> executed by CSCRIPT at a command prompt in a MS-DOS box, that can
>> read the values of extant environment variables.
>>
>> Is it possible to write such a script that will change the extant
>> environment, so that the difference can be seen by a SET command
>> following the CSCRIPT - and, if so, how?
>>
>> I'm presently using Win98.

>To do master environment changes on Win9x, use the Microsoft utility
>WINSET.EXE which is on the OS CD-ROM (for example CD-DRIVE\tools
>\reskit\scrpting\winset.exe for Win98)
>
>and
>
>How to Set Global Environment Variables in Windows 95
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140574/
>
>Note this one (from the KB article above):
>
><quote>
>Note that running the Winset.exe tool at a command prompt has no
>effect in the current instance of the command prompt. A new command
>prompt must be launched before the change is apparent.
></quote>

I don't need those, AFAICS; from your description, I can do at least as
well in practice with my own external tools in Win98 - program STOW, for
example, using unit JRS_ENVU, via sig line 3.

But I don't know how to do it from within CSCRIPT code.

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