RE: code examples in a document - RESOLUTION

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

>Most programming languages provide a character to mark
>that something is being "continued" onto another line even where
>the syntax of the language wouldn't ordinarily allow a break.
>In C for example the \ (backslash) character provides this;
>
>#define LiPointInitialise( _p, _x, _y, _z )  \
>   do                                        \ 
>   {  (_p)[0] = _x ;                         \
>      (_p)[1] = _y ;                         \
>      (_p)[2] = _z ;                         \
>   } while ( 0 )
>
>(You'd want to use a fixed-width font and line the \ up).
>
>Might be worth finding out if there is such a continuation character
>for whatever language you are using - then you can lay things
>out nicely.


Chris...what "language" is simple ol' DOS .bat file scripting :-)

...and better yet...does it have a continued character?

Seriously...in this case, what I'm documenting is simple uncompiled .bat
files. I asked the developer and his answer was "I dunno....I know what it
is for C and I know for VB, but I don't think there is one for this..."


Recognize this code?:

--------------
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%d in ('date /t') do (
	echo %%d
	echo %%e
	echo %%f
	echo %%g

	for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=: " %%h in ('time /t') do (
		echo %%h
		echo %%i
		c:\pkware\pkzipc -add=update -move -rec -path=full -attr=all

		  -older=14 -silent -times=all
E:\ZippedLogs\syslogs\%%e%%f%%g.zip
		  E:\StampedLogs\syslogs\*.*
		c:\pkware\pkzipc -add=update -move -rec -path=full -attr=all
		 -older=21 -silent -times=all
E:\ZippedLogs\custlogs\%%e%%f%%g.zip
		 E:\StampedLogs\custlogs\*.*
		c:\pkware\pkzipc -add=update -move -rec -path=full -attr=all
		 -older=5 -silent -times=all
E:\ZippedLogs\archives\%%e%%f%%g.zip
		 E:\StampedLogs\archives\*.*
	)
)

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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
 "Available for next gig Feb 01, 2003"



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