A Completely off-topic question....

In order to create the animation in another post, I use an MS-DOS command
line utility called "gifsicle"

I can then create a batch file and schedule it to run automatically using
the scheduler facility in Windows XP.

I know that in Unix, I can tag a backslash at the end of a line so that long
commands can be split over two or more lines.

The Gifsicle command can get quite large as the file-name for each frame
must be entered on the command-line

Can I split this into seperate lines in a similar way that I can in Unix?

Thanks

Brendan

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:59:59 -0000, Brendan DJ Murphy wrote in


In order to create the animation in another post, I use an MS-DOS command
line utility called "gifsicle"
I can then create a batch file and schedule it to run automatically using
the scheduler facility in Windows XP.
I know that in Unix, I can tag a backslash at the end of a line so that long
commands can be split over two or more lines.
The Gifsicle command can get quite large as the file-name for each frame
must be entered on the command-line

Have you tried *.gif in the command line, Brendan? I came across such a
line as he

gifsicle --delay=10 --loop *.gif anim.gif

Can I split this into seperate lines in a similar way that I can in Unix?

I am absolutely no expert in DOS, but would guess the answer is a "no".
Are you running it from the command window in WinXP? Is there even a line
length limit in the cmd window in XP - could you not simply let it wrap to
the next line?

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 12/12/2004 20:44:34 UTC

"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote here on 12
Dec 2004:

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Can I split this into seperate lines in a similar way that I can
in Unix?

I'm no DOS expert, but did dig up an old thread from alt.msdos.batch
that might help, as it's entitled "split command over multiple lines?"
You can see it he

http://tinyurl.com/52sha

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In article ,
Brendan DJ Murphy writes:
[about a DOS command]
The Gifsicle command can get quite large as the file-name for each frame
must be entered on the command-line

Can I split this into seperate lines in a similar way that I can in Unix?

IIRC, inserting a hyphen as the last character on a line acts as a
continuation marker. But it's a very long time since I needed to do
this, and I could be thinking of the VAX VMS command language instead!
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