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Microsoft, OS MS DOS, Windows, Shell Scripting or Ms Dos command line

Hi experts:

Here is my problem.  My users are downloading an application (zipped) and will mostlikely download to the desktop and unzip the contents onto the desktop.  Eventhough we instruct to download to c: drive and unzip there, it goes to deaf ears...
once they click on the .exe the programm needs first to read some variables that i have on an accompanying file.  But if this file sits on the desktop, the programme i wrote can't find it.  Reason> it has to look for a file called variables.txt on the Desktop.  I can't hardcode to look it up on the desktop, because some people have different language versions of windows and the path will be different, also i don't know if someone has a different file structure setup.... So, I came up with a possible solution> have a dos command find the file and therefore retrieve the path, use that path as a variable so my programme uses THAT variable to lookup the file.  QUESTION:

How do I retrieve with Ms-DOS the file path of a certain file???  I need a command that searches for file xyz.txt on the complete machine and once it finds it, I need the path to that file.  

Possible?  Please help.
Answered By: Qlemo
Expert Since: 06/11/2004
Accepted Solutions: 520
Computer Expertise: Guru
Qlemo has been an Expert for 4 years 7 months, during which he has posted 2744 comments and answered 520 questions. Qlemo is just one of 1018 experts in the MS DOS Zone. 3 experts collaborated on this answer, which was graded an "A" by the asker.
 
 
 
 
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