Add a new line to a text file in MS-DOS

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I am making a  bat file  and I would like it to write ASCII art into a text file   I was able to find the command to append a new line to the file when echoing text  but when I read that text file  all I see is a layout-sign and not a space  I think it would work by opening that file with Word or even WordPad  but I would like it to work on any computer  even if that computer only has Notepad  which is mostly the case    How can I open the text file in a certain program  i e  WordPad  or write a proper space character to the file     EDIT   I found that it is the best way to use   echo  lt line1 gt   gt   lt filename gt  echo  lt line2 gt   gt  gt   lt filename gt    P S  I used   in my ASCII art  so it crashed  Dumb Dumb Dumb

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I always use copy con  to write text  It so easy to write a long text Example      C  COPY CON  drive   path  File name            Content      F6       1 file s  is copied

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You can easily append to the end of a file  by using the redirection char twice   gt  gt       This will copy source txt to destination txt  overwriting destination in the process   type source txt  gt  destination txt   This will copy source txt to destination txt  appending to destination in the process   type source txt  gt  gt  destination txt

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echo Hello   gt  file txt echo         gt  gt file txt echo world   gt  gt file txt   and you can always run   wordpad file txt   on any version of Windows     On Windows 2000 and above you can do     echo Hello   amp  echo   amp  echo world    gt  file txt     Another way of showing a message for a small amount of text is to create file vbs containing   Msgbox  Hello    amp  vbCrLf  amp  vbCrLf  amp   world   0   Message    Call it with  cscript  nologo file vbs   Or use wscript if you don t need it to wait until they click OK     The problem with the message you re writing is that the vertical bar     is the  pipe  operator   You ll need to escape it by using    instead of     P S  it s spelled Pwned

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echo  text to echo   gt  file txt

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Maybe this is what you want   echo foo  gt  test txt echo   gt  gt  test txt echo bar  gt  gt  test txt   results in the following within test txt      foo      bar

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Use the following   echo  text here   gt  gt   name here  txt   Ex  echo my name is jeff  gt  gt  test txt  test txt  my name is jeff   You can use it in a script too

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