http://users.cybercity.dk/~bse26236/batutil/help/INDEX.HTM#s
is pretty good; it's on google's first page of results for "MS-DOS".  I
didn't find specific reference to the string handling squiggle bit, but
didn't look very hard.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:33 AM
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> Subject: Re: OT: M$-Dos Question
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> Well, that's interesting. I'm familiar with some rather old,
> kludgy ways of
> performing very crude date / time logic. This NTism is new to
> me. So are the
> offsets into the strings. Issuing SET to display env vars
> does not list
> this. And, I cannot find it in W2K help. And, neither google nor
> microsoft.com seem to be able to do much with % in strings.
> If anyone can
> point me to some documentation on these env vars and related NT / W2K
> features, I would welcome it.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob McGregor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:19 AM
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> > Subject: Re: OT: M$-Dos Question
> >
> > set yyy=%DATE%
> > or to get the month value only
> > set yyy=%DATE:~4,2%
>
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