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   R.Wieser to All   
   Re: What syntax combines 2 commands into   
   29 Aug 19 09:08:33   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.os.msdos.programmer   
   From: address@not.available   
      
   Oh. My. God.   
      
   Again one of those "lets just shit all over the newsgroups" posts of our   
   resident brainiac.   
      
   Kudos to you kid, you are to dumb to even realize that MSDOS doesn't have   
   anything resembling shortcuts.  Let alone that "veracrypt" isn't available   
   for DOS.   In short: No help to be expected from MSDOS users, batch or   
   otherwise.   
      
   Besides: How hard is it to realize that you can, as Grant already indicated,   
   use the link to start a batch file (or any other kind of script! PowerShell   
   perhaps ?) to do some multi-line commands (or maybe even create a (batch   
   style, single-line!) loop over the involved drive letters).   
      
   > Combining them with "&" and "&&" in a single shortcut   
   > TARGET line garners: "VeraCrypt: Error while parsing   
   > command line."   
      
   Little wonder brainiac, as stitching commands together using "&" or "&&" is   
   only valid on the commandline and has no meaning in the rest of Windows.   
   Didn't you know ?   
      
   But if you really /have/ to do it that way just shortcut to CMD.EXE and have   
   it execute that commandline.   Problem solved.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
   P.s.   
   removed: alt.comp.freeware.  Reason: Too many xpost groups   
      
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