I have been programming BAT files since 1982 and never seen this issue before. I am running XP and my batch files do not function properly. All my commands are ignored including:
\nSET PATH=
\nIF EXIST <filename>
\nGOTO
\nIn addition, the command-line memory doesn’t work on this machine. Usually I press PgUp to see and execute previous lines held in a buffer. Nothing is there.<\/p>\n
How can WINDOWS work if there is no ability to execute commands in a batch file?<\/p>\n
Here is the actual run. Even change drive fails:<\/p>\n
C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOAN\\DESKTOP>set path=c:\\util;c:\\windows\\system32;c:\\windows<\/p>\n
C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOAN\\DESKTOP>path
\nPATH=c:\\util;c:\\windows\\system32;c:\\windows<\/p>\n
C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOAN\\DESKTOP>set
\nALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\\DOCUME~1\\ALLUSE~1
\nAPPDATA=C:\\DOCUME~1\\Joan\\APPLIC~1
\nBLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3
\nCLASSPATH=.;C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre1.6.0_05\\lib\\ext\\QTJava.zip
\nCOMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1
\nCOMPUTERNAME=DFM4JM91
\nComSpec=C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe
\nFP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
\nHOMEDRIVE=C:
\nHOMEPATH=\\Documents and Settings\\Joan
\nLOGONSERVER=\\\\DFM4JM91
\nNUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
\nOS=Windows_NT
\nPATH=c:\\util;c:\\windows\\system32;c:\\windows
\nPATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
\nPROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
\nPROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
\nPROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
\nPROCESSOR_REVISION=0409
\nPROGRAMFILES=C:\\PROGRA~1
\nPROMPT=$P$G
\nQTJAVA=C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre1.6.0_05\\lib\\ext\\QTJava.zip
\nSESSIONNAME=Console
\nSONICCENTRAL=C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Sonic Shared\\Sonic Central\\
\nSYSTEMDRIVE=C:
\nSYSTEMROOT=C:\\WINDOWS
\nTEMP=C:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP
\nTMP=C:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP
\nUSERDOMAIN=DFM4JM91
\nUSERNAME=Joan
\nUSERPROFILE=C:\\DOCUME~1\\Joan<\/p>\n
C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOAN\\DESKTOP>r:<\/p>\n
C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOAN\\DESKTOP>path
\nPATH=C:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~
\n1\\ROXIOS~1\\DLLSHA~1\\;C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUICKT~1\\QTSyst<\/p>\n
Notice that the PATH and SET commands inside the batch file seemed to work, but the change-drive command (R:) failed and the last line (PATH) entered immediately after the run shows the original path restored.<\/p>\n
This seems impossible, but it’s true. And rebooting made no difference.<\/p>\n
I’m stumped. Anyone have some idea of what is happening, and how to fix it?<\/p>\n
What makes it even stranger is that the little sub,bat program does work and does set up three SUBST drives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":77},"question-category":[55],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-14203","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-programming"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/14203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=14203"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=14203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}