[Misc] Lines and Boxes in Batch File?

[fly2279]

I've seen some batch files that echo certain ascii characters to create "boxes" around text. I can't seem to find anything useful searching google to get some help on this. Is there a list somewhere that has the characters I can put into a batch file to make it look "pretty"? Here is an example:

ECHO ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿

ECHO ³ ³

ECHO ³ You are about to reformat your Hard Disk ! All Data ³

ECHO ³ will be PERMANENTLY LOST - If you have Data that you ³

ECHO ³ need ON THE C: drive, back it up BEFORE carrying out ³

ECHO ³ this procedure - YOU ARE WARNED that proceeding now ³

ECHO ³ destroys ALL Data on the C: Drive ³

ECHO ³ ³

ECHO ³ Press 'Y' to REFORMAT or 'N' to EXIT ³

ECHO ³ ³

ECHO ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ

Edited January 21, 2007 by fly2279

[cluberti]

WBAT is great for that.

[IcemanND]

If you don't want another application,

get the Extended ASCII table, then you can use ALT+ the 3 digit ASCII code to put the character directly into the batch file yourself.

ALT+200 = ╚

ALT+201 = ╔

ALT+187 = ╗

ALT+188 = ╝

[fly2279]

Thanks for the info. I tried opening the batch file from the cmd window and using the 'edit' command. I pressed ctl+p, held down alt and typed in the three letter code and pressed enter, saved the file. When I ran the file the character didn't show up. What am I doing wrong? BTW I'm using windows xp.

[IcemanND]

Forget the CTRL+P, not needed.

When you use ALT+three it should show up on the screen as soon as you let go of the alt key. There are a handful of applications it won't work in, but that is how I posted them in my previous post.

Another option is to write you file in notepad and use the character map, but that is much more annoying in my opinion.

[fly2279]

Thanks, got it now...