I know this is an old post, but I saw no fix here, and it took me some   
   searching before I tried my own fix.   
      
   In Notepad, I changed my font from 'Lucinda Console' to 'TERMINAL', and the   
   dashes (-) changed to The  (û) symbol.  I just manually used the - on my   
   keyboard using that font, saved my BAT script, and it executed fine.   
      
   On Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 10:09:39 PM UTC-5, Todd Vargo wrote:   
   > Kevin wrote:   
   > > Word has a great advantage in that I can replacing the end Paragragh   
   > > mark  via the "Special" button in the Replace dialog box.  That way I   
   > > can easily insert anything at the end of every line by just replacing   
   > > the carriage  return with a string followed by a carriage return. . .   
   > > or insert anything at the beginning of every line by replacing the   
   > > Paragraph mark with a paragraph mark followed by a string.  This batch   
   > > file has about 50 lines (to RAR 50 videos into compressed parts), so   
   > > Word was a real time-saver.   
   > >   
   > > If I do not need to add anything to the beginning or end of the lines   
   > > - then yes, I just use Notepad.  You are right about turning off   
   > > Auto-Correct.  That was the problem.  I found a checkbox that says   
   > > "Replace hyphens (- -) with dash (--).  In the research I did today I   
   > > found that there are three dashes:   
   > >   
   > >      dash (hyphen),  en dash, and em dash   
   > >             -                           --                 ---   
   > >   
   > > Apparently, Word calls the regular keyboard dash, a "hyphen".  The   
   > > hyphen is the regular dash and the "en dash" is longer.  The "em dash"   
   > > is longer still !!  In fact, some call the en-dash "shart dash" and   
   > > the em dash "long dash".  Here is a table of the three types shown in   
   > > various fonts:   http://www.infocellar.com/software/symbols.htm   
   > >   
   > > I notice that Word keeps the dash short  when you type it as the first   
   > > character of a line, or if used as a separator (for example,   
   > > first-floor).  But whenever you use it as the first character of   
   > > anything other than the beginning of a line, it replaces it with the   
   > > en-dash.  This autocorrect stuff is nuts !!  Thanks for the tip - I   
   > > turned the damn thing off.   
   >    
   > Note, with the proper command, your batch file creation would not have   
   > needed to be edited at all.   
   >    
   > for %? in (*.ext) do echo winrar a -v10m "rar_file_name" "%?" >>temp.bat   
   >    
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   > Todd Vargo   
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