Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Jul 19 17:55:37 CDT 2009
Hi All: Has anyone heard of there being a limit of a line length within a batch file? I have a batch file that creates a directory and writes some backup data to it. This batch file works fine on other computers but on a specific computer the batch files fails on a longer line (64 characters). If the same line is run in direct mode no problem. The syntax is correct because if the line is cut and pasted to a command prompt the line functions correctly. The rest of the batch file runs fine without that one line... so it is related exclusively to the one line of code. Putting that one line of code into a batch file and then running it results in the same error. It appears that it is not buffering the whole line before attempting to run it. If anyone has run across this type of issues before and hopefully found a solution please pass it on. TIA Jim PS the cmd line of code is: for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %i in ('date /t') do set dt=%k%i%j