Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 
>>     foo.exe    > temp.txt
>>     SET /P VAR < temp.txt

That actually works on CMD, no need for Powershell for that :).

>> Isn't that intuitive?)
> 
> Why wouldn't "foo.exe | SET /P VAR" work? Or didn't pipes work in DOS like
> they do in unix?
> 

Either that or SET being not an actual command, but as Orchid said, it
doesn't. BTDTCTHO (Been There, Done That, Cursed The Hell Out)

-Aero

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