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From: brand@cad.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Getting rid of "syntax error" from .bat files - how to?
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Date: 5 Dec 90 18:02:40 GMT
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I have written a batch file which accepts parameters from the command
line using the:
	if %1==param1
syntax. It works fine except that if I don't pass any parameters, I
get the above syntax error message. Is there any way to suppress this?

In addition, is there any way of passing a string, the first character
of which is a dash (-), as in -f? It doesn't seem to work with the
above test.

Cheers,
-Graham