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Did you really say “look a gift horse in the mouse”?

Turn off the computer and go out into the fresh air for a walk!

- SB

Hello Again! Here’s some more for /f weirdness: @echo off & setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion if not exist "hash10k.txt" ( for /l %%I in (1 1 1000) do <nul set /p "=##########" >>"hash10k.txt" <nul set /p "=# " >>"hash10k.txt" ) i...

Hi Foxi, Sorry for not being clearer. The difference in the output from your first two examples is, as you inferred, what I was trying to draw attention to. When "delims=" is in effect, lines beginning with a semi-colon will be ignored. But when it’s "tokens=*", lines where the f...

Happy 2015! Has anyone else noticed this strange behaviour? @echo off & setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion for /f "delims=:" %%N in ( 'findstr /bln __DATA__ "%~dpnx0" ') do set lino=%%N for /f "usebackq skip=%lino% eol=; tokens=*" %%A in ( "%~dpn...

Dear Dave and Aacini, First of all, let me say that jrepl and findrepl are excellent programs. Some may grumble that they are JavaScript wrapped in Batch, but I don’t think that’s a valid criticism because it would be simply impossible to write a program in “pure Batch” (whatever that is) that would...

Dear DosTippers, I have a complete set of 3.5inch floppies that came shrink-wrapped with an early 1990s Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PC. DEC later sold off their PC division to Compaq who were in turn swallowed up by HP. Anyways, the point is, I have the disks for MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1… ...

Happy Christmas, All!

I found a treasure trove of download links to hard-to-find old NStorm games including Frogapult and the first three games in the Elf Bowling series.

Enjoy!

- SB

Hi Squashman, Dave Benham first proposed using forfiles to generate nearly any character, including tab 2 years ago. As noted at the time, the trouble with forfiles is that it isn’t present on all versions of Windows. Makecab, otoh, is. So my little snippet should work out-of-the-box on XP and above...

Hello All! I modified the code developed in this thread to store a tab in a variable: @echo off & setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion type nul >tab.tmp makecab /d compress=off /d reserveperdatablocksize=0 ^ /d reserveperfoldersize=9 tab.tmp tab.tmp >nul for /f "skip=28 delims=...

Penpen wrote: I assume the safest way is, to to use fc.exe and count the hex newline characters and add 1 to get the linecount.

That’s what made me think you were incorrectly adding 1 to the line count when a file ended with a LF. Sorry I misunderstood.

Argh! Hoisted by my own petard . I neglected the edge-case of a file whose last line is a single non-LF character. See this post for revised code. @Penpen Using fc /b to count the LFs in a file is an interesting approach, but you fell into the same trap I did. Your code counts the number of LFs and ...

Thanks to everyone who replied… @Siberia-Man More has problems as pointed out by Squashman above and in this post . Type would be a better alternative: type filename.txt | find /c /v "" @FoxiDrive Using redirected input from a file with find is unreliable… as you yourself discussed in this...

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Hello All! In a post on another topic , Dave Benham observed: SET /P will terminate the input upon reading a NULL byte. What really blows me away is that SET /P can read both newline (0x0A) and carriage return (0x0D) into a variable if they are followed by 0x00. With the caveat that there has to be ...

Hi Again! Sorry for the delay, but I’m easily… oh look, a shiny object! Anyways, I’ve rewritten the code to create a dummy file that has the same size as the original. The program accepts two arguments: the original filename (required); and the ASCII code of the fill character (0 by default). If all...