RE: code examples in a document - RESOLUTION

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Hi, guys....thanks to everyone who responded to this question. I received
lots of good (and varied) ideas. 

The way I handled it (right or wrong) is to place a hard return at a logical
break, then allow the next line to indent a couple of spaces, but not enough
to resemble an indented line. I've included a small clip of the code below
to show what I mean

...
md F:\xx\xx\logs\stamped\custlogs\%%x\%%y\%%z\%%d_%%e%%f%%g_%%j	
for /F "usebackq" %%l in (`dir F:\xx\xx\logs\custlogs\%%x\%%y\%%z\ /b`) do (

	XCOPY F:\xx\xx\logs\custlogs\%%x\%%y\%%z\%%l
	 F:\xx\xx\logs\stamped\custlogs\%%x\%%y\%%z\%%d_%%e%%f%%g_%%j\ /Y /C
/H /R /F /V
	ren F:\xx\xx\logs\stamped\custlogs\%%x\%%y\%%z\%%d_%%e%%f%%g_%%j\%%l
	 %%e%%f%%g_%%h%%i_%%j.%%l
...

Of the several hundred lines, this only occurs less than 10 times. The
original code is available on VSS and I've included a link to that code. I'm
not too concerned about anyone trying to cut/paste the code in the form that
I'm displaying since a warning has been put in that the code may have been
modified by developers since documented, therefore, they are only to use the
VSS files.

I would be interested in input if the way I've it is going to cause any
developers real (not imagined) grief. 

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
 "Available for next gig Feb 01, 2003"



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