take a look at your path. the external program may have changed it. if so you can change the path back so the win32 directories come first to see your path type: echo %PATH% check your help on how to change the path, it is a bit different between win32 os's
> -----Original Message----- > From: HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:21 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: forcing use of shell command over external cmd > > > Hi All, > > On windows, I have a script which calls gets the date from > the system date > command (using backticks) , or rather I would prefer it to. > > I have just installed mks toolkit on this machine which has > it's own date > command, and now this is the command getting chosen each time. > > How can I get it to use cmd.exe's date command, or more > generally force use > of the system shell's commands over an external program? > > Many thanks, > > Mark > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
