From: klee@unibwm.de   
      
   On 21.05.2015 18:04, Ferlin Short wrote:   
   > On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 8:56:01 AM UTC-7, 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   
      
   > The contents of the file can be anything in the West European character set,   
   > including alpha-numeric and special characters. There are no carriage returns   
   > or linefeeds, so I guess you could call it 'one line.' And that line length   
   has no limit.   
      
   Then try your code:   
      
   > @echo off   
   > setlocal enabledelayedexpansion   
   > set x=   
   > for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (%1) do set x=!x!%%a   
   > :NEXTLINE   
   > >>output.txt echo %x:~0,128%   
   > set x=%x:~128%   
   > if "%x%" neq "" goto :NEXTLINE   
      
   with this input:   
      
   aa!<>|%aaaa   
      
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