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Well spotted Jeb Thats what happens when you don't test..... /F needs to be included, but its not there so that tokens and delims work. /F identifies that the 'set' in the round brackets is not a filename to be interrogated, but either a file with a list of filenames in it, or a command that the ind...

ECHO %RESULT%

FOR "TOKENS=1-3,DELIMS= " %%A IN ('REG QUERY HKLM\Software\Oracle /v FORMS60') DO SET result=%%C

Sorry, Should have said, something like this,

start cmd /k yourbatch.bat

which sets environment variables then executes whatever it is you want to run.

If I understand it correctly, You want to be using 'START' , call the batch file that sets the environment, use /k to remain in command prompt,
JOB DONE
The environment variables will be lost when the window is closed.

Use a command line parameter from the first batch and check for it in the second batch eg one batch calls another 1stbatch.bat contains IF blah blah blah DO START /wait 2ndbatch.bat called 2ndbatch.bat contains IF "%1"=="called" GOTO blah blah blah If 2ndbatch.bat is run on its o...