Menu Batch Line Continuation

DataDoIt filepro at datadoit.com
Sat Feb 26 18:57:30 PST 2005


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|From: 
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|[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+filepro=datadoit.com at lists.celesti
al.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
|Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 9:25 PM
|To: mike at datadoit.com
|Cc: filepro-list at seaslug.org
|Subject: Re: Menu Batch Line Continuation
|
|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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Tilde it is.  Thanks.



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