I'm having trouble setting an environment variable with Kixtart in W2K. I need the equivalent of typing "set LINAME=chuck" at the command line. I've got a legacy program that does not look in the registry settings for the environment, so the "new" way of setting them in HKCU will not work.

I have the following code in my script now:
Code:

  SET "LINAME=@USERID"


It is indeed working the way it is documented, but if I open a command prompt and type "echo %LINAME%" it doesn't know about the variable.

Is my only alternative to run the command through a batch script? The command doesn't get launched by Kixtart but just by the user when he needs it. I am hoping there is a better way to do this from within my script rather than having to write a batch script and change everyone's shortcut to the program.

Thanks in advance!