ROT13 in DOS .BAT files (and other fun stuff that makes my brain hurt)

[Darren Dirt]

And yet the more I actually attempt to wrap my brain around some of this stuff, the more this ridic uber-advanced stuff is added to the list of stuff that I actually "get".

https://sites.google.com/site/dbenhamfiles/home/CharLib_bat.txt?attredirects=0

^ link to a .TXT that is a DOS batch file that does ... stuff.


via http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6953#p6953 (because I was having fun trying to add a LineFeed character to an environment variable in my own rather complex script, and ... well, I got sucked into this rabbit hole, thanks Google!)




"dbenham" is a frickin' GENIUS. Seriously. At least when it comes to rightfully earning the respect of the DOS/.BAT coding world.
https://sites.google.com/site/dbenhamfiles/home <-- The original cave text adventure there. IN A .BAT FILE.

[Mr. Analog]

Whoa, that takes me back!

These days it's all Powershell (in my world anyway)

[Darren Dirt]

And you're certainly lucky.

But sometimes you need to make something do an automated task and know it will work on any damn machine anywhere in your network.


And as a result, you start to "get it" when you read stuff like this...
http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25225#p25225

[Darren Dirt]

"CharLib_bat.txt" still hurts my brain.

But it's surprisingly still download-able at the link above.

Also, wow 3.5 years ago was when I posted this. I don't want to think about what it means knowing how much time has passed and why I posted this... yikes.