cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Crash Gordon) (12/04/90)
>Author: [Henk Fictorie] >In a bat file I would like to ECHO the special characters: < > | &. >Author: [Rolf Michelsen] >I haven't tested this, but the standard way of passing special characters >as parameters is to enclose the entire parameter in double quotes. You >could try something like this: ECHO "this is a <silly> test" Rolf's solution does work. You can even do things like ECHO This is a "<" less than test. But the double quotes are echoed as well. I don't know how to get the characters without the quotes politely. There is a kludge you can use: Echo using the double quotes, and after each double quote leave a space. Then go back with a binary editor (like DEBUG) and replace the space character with a backspace ('08). COMMAND.COM will still recognize and process the double quotes, but will then backspace over them and they won't show. To get rid of the last character on a line, you have to have a space _after_ the backspace. Like this: 67AC:0100 40 65 63 68 6F 20 6F 66-66 0D 0A 65 63 68 6F 20 @echo off..echo 67AC:0110 22 08 54 68 69 73 20 77-6F 72 6B 73 21 20 3C 3E ".This works! <> 67AC:0120 7C 26 22 08 20 0D 0A |&". .. You should document this in a REM statement, however, since TYPEing the file will not display the quotes -- the backspace character eats them quite effectively! ----------------------------------------------------- Gordon S. Hlavenka cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us Disclaimer: I don't know what 4DOS would do with this