Hi Jose, > On Jan 8, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Jose Senna <jasse...@mail.com> wrote: > > Jerome Shidel said: > >> REM this thing [[x|4]] or later >> in one of its remarks. Every time the batch >> was executed, it displayed a “4]]” command not found error. > > It is not a bug, "|" is the sign for a pipe, so the > parser thinks the output should be piped to 4]]. > Of course, one would expect the line should be > completely ignored, but perhaps the parser ignores > the line up to "|". > I suggest to try some tests with some non-reserved > character in place of "|" and also other REMmed > statements inluding the "|" in other places.
For the BAT in question, I did not write it. I just found myself needing to fix it. I immediately knew what was happening and swapped out the pipe for a comma. No more problem in that batch REM statement. Since the docs say everything after the REM is ignored, I feel that the behavior is not consistent with the stated behavior. So, it is a bug in either the handling of the pipe in a REM statement. Or, it is a bug in the documentation. Either way, It is more of a philosophical question.MS-DOS is NOT bug free and just because happens in MS-DOS, does that mean it needs to do the same thing in FreeDOS. Even if it is a bug in MS-DOS? :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
