Batch Echo Problem

ninjamunky

May 26 2005, 07:16 PM

I'm trying to make a batch that displays this ASCII text with echo, but it gives me an error. Here is the script I have:

QUOTE

@echo off
cls
echo ___ ___ ___ ___
echo /__/\ ___ /__/\ / /\ / /\
echo \ \:\ / /\ \ \:\ / /:/ / /::\
echo \ \:\ / /:/ \ \:\ /__/::\ / /:/\:\
echo _____\__\:\ /__/::\ _____\__\:\ \__\/\:\ / /:/~/::\
echo /__/::::::::\ \__\/\:\__ /__/::::::::\ \ \:\ /__/:/ /:/\:\
echo \ \:\~~\~~\/ \ \:\/\ \ \:\~~\~~\/ \__\:\ \ \:\/:/__\/
echo \ \:\ ~~~ \__\::/ \ \:\ ~~~ / /:/ \ \::/
echo \ \:\ /__/:/ \ \:\ /__/:/ \ \:\
echo \ \:\ \__\/ \ \:\ \__\/ \ \:\
echo \__\/ \__\/ \__\/
echo ___ ___ ___ ___
echo /__/\ /__/\ /__/\ /__/| ___
echo | |::\ \ \:\ \ \:\ | |:| /__/|
echo | |:|:\ \ \:\ \ \:\ | |:| | |:|
echo __|__|:|\:\ ___ \ \:\ _____\__\:\ __| |:| | |:|
echo /__/::::| \:\ /__/\ \__\:\ /__/::::::::\ /__/\_|:|____ __|__|:|
echo \ \:\~~\__\/ \ \:\ / /:/ \ \:\~~\~~\/ \ \:\/:::::/ /__/::::\
echo \ \:\ \ \:\ /:/ \ \:\ ~~~ \ \::/~~~~ ~\~~\:\
echo \ \:\ \ \:\/:/ \ \:\ \ \:\ \ \:\
echo \ \:\ \ \::/ \ \:\ \ \:\ \__\/
echo \__\/ \__\/ \__\/ \__\/
pause
exit

I've highlighted the trouble spot in red. Is there any way around this? I would appreciate some help on this

You can save this to a .bat for yourself and see the error, just run in through cmd so it doesn't exit right away and you'll see the error. My friend said it was the slashes on the one line, but if it's echo, it should be like a comment, just displayed; or at least in my world it would be

Again, help appreciated.

signatureimage

May 27 2005, 12:30 PM

Dear ninjamunky,

Some characters are indeed reserved for some special functions.
Like the greater-than sign, the less-than sign and the pipe sign, and others.
Therefore it is my habit to type all these texts into a separate file,
like message1.txt

And then, in the batch file, I execute:

CODE

type message1.txt

This has the very same result as various echo statements.
The special batch characters pose no problem that way.
And furthermore, I find it easier to maintain.

ninjamunky

May 27 2005, 07:16 PM

Thanks a lot mate

Worked perfectly. Thanks again.

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