From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-12-02T21:57:07+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?


"David Garamond" <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3FCC69F6.2090501@zara.6.isreserved.com...
> Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:
> > The same works for multiliners as well.
> >
> > I don't see why to make everything fit into one line if there is no
> > necessity for it.
>
> Many of my "one-liners" actually span several physical lines :-) (Too
> bad CMD.EXE doesn't seem to allow newline characters in one command
> line, or does it?).

It does - just the escape character is a bit different.  But you didn't
seriously expect it to be "\" on a MS system, did you?  ;-)

File foo.bat:
echo ^
test ^
case

This outputs "test case".

Cheers

    robert