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Author terry.reedy
Recipients paul.moore, serhiy.storchaka, steve.dower, terry.reedy, tim.golden, vstinner, zach.ware
Date 2017-11-18.05:45:32
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So the hack is not specific to DOS but is still needed for Windows .bat files. They run in Command Prompt, which was once called the DOS box.  (I don't know if they work unaltered in PowerShell.)  It seems that the doc should be updated.
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