[vorbis] Slightly off-topic: question about DOS batch files

[Nathan I. Sharfi]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, John Morton wrote:

> On Monday 07 January 2002 18:05, Philip M. White wrote:
> > Jack, thanks for your quick reply about my Comment question.
> > This next question is slightly off-topic, but it pertains to encoding a
> > directory of WAV files into Oggs.
> >
> > 	Right now I have 14 WAVs that I ripped from a CD... I made a [huge] batch
> > file which specifies the name and track number of each WAV.  Unfortunately,
> > I have to have the entire batch file on a single line, since it's a single
> > call to oggenc.exe. This single line is 1057 characters long!  :-/ Is there
> > any way to have an escape character, like the backslash on Unix/Linux, that
> > would allow me to have multiple lines of batch file, but would be
> > interpreted as a single line by DOS?  That would make it much easier to
> > edit data of each track. If anyone knows about this, please tell me.
> > Thanks.
>
> Give up on dos batch files and install either python or perl. ActiveState
> have some nice prepackaged binaries for each. Then grab a tutorial and hack
> away, or take one of the many existing perl/python rip/encode/tag scripts and
> tweak it to suit. This is almost certainly going to cause you less pain in
> the long run.
>
> John
>
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