Hi, On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 1:39 AM Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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?
This is well-known .BAT behavior in MS-DOS (but could still "maybe" be considered a bug). The classic workaround is to use "::" (two colons) to comment out the line, then you can use as many pipes and redirection symbols as desired. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
