Menu Batch Line Continuation

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Sat Feb 26 18:24:42 PST 2005


Quoting Mike Rathburn <mike at datadoit.com>:

> When creating a Windows menu batch, what is the character to use to
> continue
> the command line?
>
> ie:  In Unix, the character is '\'.  What's the equivalent for Windows?
>
> Ex:	/fp/dclerk file bla bla bla \	<
> 	-h "Heading"			<

As I recall, it's a tilde - "~".  There are too many legitimate reasons
under DOS/Windows to end a command line in "\", so it cannot be used as
a line-continuation marker.

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