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Old January 21st 06, 01:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.shell
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Default Suppress End of line character in batch filese

Have just found this - use the "^" character at the end of a line with a
leading space on the next line, so ...

ntbackup backup "@E:\Backup bks files\Backup-%NAME%-Data.bks" /F "E:\Backup
bkf files\Backup-%NAME%-Data-%TYPE%.bkf" /j "%NAME% %LNGTYPE% Data Backup"
/l:s /m %LNGTYPE% /n "%NAME%D" /v:yes

.... becomes ...

ntbackup backup "@E:\Backup bks files\Backup-%NAME%-Data.bks" ^
/F "E:\Backup bkf files\Backup-%NAME%-Data-%TYPE%.bkf" ^
/j "%NAME% %LNGTYPE% Data Backup" ^
/l:s ^
/m %LNGTYPE% ^
/n "%NAME%D" ^
/v:yes

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Stephen Ford

"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
...
Your editor might support a newline character which is ignored by the
command interpreter, depending on what editor you are using.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Stephen Ford" . wrote in message
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OK, Thanks. I'd swear I've used such a character to make the code more
readable. Must be thinking of something else.