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   Ferlin Short to foxidrive   
   Re: Add Carriage Return and Line Feed ev   
   18 May 15 07:49:32   
   
   From: ferlin.short@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 11:13:17 PM UTC-7, foxidrive wrote:   
   > On 16/05/2015 01:55, Ferlin Short wrote:   
   > > I'm struggling with writing a batch file that will take a filename as   
   > > the only parameter, reading the file contents and inserting a carriage   
   > > return and line feed every 128 characters   
   >   
   > What range of characters in the ascii set is it?  Only alpha-numerics?   
   > All Latin characters?   
   >   
   > Do you have a restriction on what tools are used?   
      
   I can't use any other tools besides the batch file, and the characters in the   
   file could be anything in the WE8MSWIN1252 West European character set.   
      
   Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.   
      
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