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Wyatt (🏳️‍⚧️♀?)

@whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick it's been around since windows xp. I'm astonished if you never have

28 May at 17:20 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tech.lgbt
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✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ replied to Wyatt
Wyatt (🏳️‍⚧️♀?) replied to ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

@whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick gotta say i kind of wondered when you said 'only thing worse is cmd.exe'
Because that means you never used DOS

28 May at 17:22 | Open on tech.lgbt
✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ replied to Wyatt

@wyatt8740 @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick I have, actually! I never tried to ship DOS batch files at scale though, because that scale did not exist yet

28 May at 17:22 | Open on mastodon.social
Wyatt (🏳️‍⚧️♀?) replied to ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

@whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick command.com bat files are much worse than windows bat files

28 May at 17:23 | Open on tech.lgbt
Pixel Doge replied to Wyatt

@wyatt8740 @whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick ...aaaand that's why some of us used 4DOS, before moving over to Unix-like systems soon after.

28 May at 20:04 | Open on oldbytes.space
ParzivalWolfram replied to ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

@whitequark @wyatt8740 @jannem @dalias @unnick

if you need a variable that has iterable characters, you have to do something to the tune of:

choice /t:=,1 /c=%1= R:\bat\str2.bat > %TEMP%\test.bat
%TEMP%\test.bat

where str2.bat is the script to actually process the iterable (in my case, it's up to three splits in a string, and it's 1.2KB.)

this relies on error logic in choice to accomplish this, and needs tweaking for the version of DOS it's running on (this precise line only works on MS-DOS 6+ or equal IBM-DOS, and I don't think DR-DOS needs this at all, since it has some string comprehension extensions iirc)

@whitequark @wyatt8740 @jannem @dalias @unnick

if you need a variable that has iterable characters, you have to do something to the tune of:

choice /t:=,1 /c=%1= R:\bat\str2.bat > %TEMP%\test.bat
%TEMP%\test.bat

where str2.bat is the script to actually process the iterable (in my case, it's up to three splits in a string, and it's 1.2KB.)

28 May at 17:26 | Open on infosec.exchange
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