[Philip K.]

Sometimes I come across files with percent symbols on each side. What does
this stand for?

[Camille]

% The percentages, are like a search thingy, kind of like keywords, its like
the Asterisk (*) It is basically a wild card in a search query

"Philip K." wrote:

> Sometimes I come across files with percent symbols on each side. What does
> this stand for?
>
>
>

[Jonybrv]

Usually files that Windows Update or Windows installation will use has $
symbol. If you let us know the file names you see it should help in
confirming this.

--
JonyBrv


"Philip K." wrote:

> Sometimes I come across files with percent symbols on each side. What does
> this stand for?
>
>
>

[Alan Edwards]

Do you really mean files or do you mean a variable that may form part
of a file path?
e.g. %USERPROFILE%\Favorites in my case would be:
C:\Documents and Settings\Alan Edwards\Favorites

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, "Philip K." <Philip@aol.com>
wrote:

>Sometimes I come across files with percent symbols on each side. What does
>this stand for?
>

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:05:27 +1000, Alan Edwards
<edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote:

|Do you really mean files or do you mean a variable that may form part
|of a file path?
|e.g. %USERPROFILE%\Favorites in my case would be:
|C:\Documents and Settings\Alan Edwards\Favorites
He must mean these Environmental Variables that
admin can define under System Props.

Just my 2¢ worth. Larry
Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

[Alan Edwards]

Perhaps he may answer for himself and tell us what he means?
Have you added 31 to your number?

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, "Larry(LJL269)" <NO@EMAIL.COM>
wrote:

> He must mean these Environmental Variables that
>admin can define under System Props.
>

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:43:11 +1000, Alan Edwards
<edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote:

|Have you added 31 to your number?
Which number Alan? Is 31 in base not=10? :)

larry
Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

[Philip K.]

Thanks everybody. Right now I can't find any. Anyway it seems that
operating system makes them so I need not really worry about them.


"Philip K." <Philip@aol.com> wrote in message
news:ujl3trtdFHA.892@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Sometimes I come across files with percent symbols on each side. What
> does this stand for?
>

[Ken Blake]

In news:177D2066-E75A-4B13-A5BB-86E95E914EB2@microsoft.com,
Camille <Camille@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

> % The percentages, are like a search thingy, kind of like
> keywords,
> its like the Asterisk (*) It is basically a wild card in a
> search
> query


No, it's not that all. Philip, these are presumably not file
names you're asking about, but environment variables. You can set
environment variables yourself with the set command, but many are
set automatically by Windows, for example %SystemRoot%, which is
normally set to c:\windows.

To use an environment variable in a command, you have to enclose
it within percent marks. If you wanted to write a command that
would work regardless of what drive and folder Windows was
installed in, you would specify %SystemRoot% instead of
c:\windows.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup



> "Philip K." wrote:
>
>> Sometimes I come across files with percent symbols on each
>> side.
>> What does this stand for?

[Larry(LJL269)]

U'll c them in shortcuts & Registry. Now they wont be a
surprise.

Larry


On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:22:11 -0400, "Philip K."
<Philip@aol.com> wrote:

|Thanks everybody. Right now I can't find any. Anyway it seems that
|operating system makes them so I need not really worry about them.
|
|
|"Philip K." <Philip@aol.com> wrote in message
|news:ujl3trtdFHA.892@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
|> Sometimes I come across files with percent symbols on each side. What
|> does this stand for?
|>
|

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.