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

[Hongl Lai]

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 06:05, 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.
> 
> 						-- Philip.

Try a UNIX shell, like bash. It has been ported to Win32.
http://www.mingw.org/

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