Vista - Re: Parse current IP address into environment variables

03-31-2009

"James Whitlow" <jwhitlow.60372693@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:evGf$nisJHA.528@xxxxxx

Quote:

> I have had good luck using volatile environment variables. They are still
> not visible to processes that were launched before the script, but they
> are visible to both new and child processes launched after the script. I
> have only tried this in WinXP Pro, so I don't know if this is true in
> other versions of Windows.
>
> Set oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
> oWSH.Environment("volatile").Item("MyVariable") = "Hello"

Nice - I'm adding this one to my collection of useful bits!

03-31-2009	#1 (permalink)
Pegasus [MVP] n/a posts	Re: Parse current IP address into environment variables "James Whitlow" <jwhitlow.60372693@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:evGf$nisJHA.528@xxxxxx Quote: > I have had good luck using volatile environment variables. They are still > not visible to processes that were launched before the script, but they > are visible to both new and child processes launched after the script. I > have only tried this in WinXP Pro, so I don't know if this is true in > other versions of Windows. > > Set oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") > oWSH.Environment("volatile").Item("MyVariable") = "Hello" Nice - I'm adding this one to my collection of useful bits!
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