
----- Original Message ----- 
From: MARK LEEDS 
To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch 
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 9:49 PM
Subject: simple .bat question but i can't find out where to post. my apologiesfor posting a non R question


I have what I think is a simple .bat question but i can't figure out where to post it ( i spent 6 hours looking through tutorials on batch commands but i haven't had success .

Here is my question if anyone wouldn't mind answering :

previously, i was on linux and tickerFileToSimulate was a file that contained a line in the top say "japan".

I had shell script in linux that had the following 2 lines in it.

TICKER_FILE = 'cat tickerFileToSimulate'
file = $TICKER_FILE

in this way, the variable $file was set equal to japan.

I CANNOT find how to do the equivalent in a .bat file on windows XP.

if someone could give me a place to post or tell me how to do it, it would be really great and again i am sorry for posting this question.

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