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Name: Geralds Mod
Date: November 20, 2007 at 20:37:04 Pacific
OS: win xp
CPU/Ram: centrinio duo
Product: dell inspirion
Comment:

I am making my first command prompt game.

The box that is the level, looks like this:
_________
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|_________|

But echo thinks the pipe character is something else. I says:

| was unexpected at this time.

How do I get that error to stop without messing up my box?



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Name: Razor2.3
Date: November 21, 2007 at 00:30:55 Pacific
Reply:

ECHO ^|


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