Batch commands that work in NT/XP but not under win-98?

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DOS Guy

2011-05-01 01:11:45 UTC

This web-page:

http://batcheero.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-enabledelayedexpansion.html

decribes one particular batch command (setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION)
that I'm encountering in a utility program designed to convert
multimedia video files from various formats into MKV format.

The utility program is called VID2EVA (http://www.vid2eva.com/)

I'm not sure what other commands or parameters invoked by this batch
file is specific to NT-based OS's, but this one in particular seems
somewhat important. Is there an equivalent function or statement that
can be used to replace this command when run under win-98?

The batch file itself is about 163 kb in size, and it can be downloaded
as part of this archive:

http://eoi.lefti.net/stuff/eva9000beta/VID2EVA%20Stable%20Releases/VID2EVA-2009-06-18.zip

A direct link to the batch file is here:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/19/2010382/VID2EVA.zip

I had to rename it from .bat to .txt for fileden to accept it.

Jacob

2011-05-01 02:46:35 UTC

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Post by DOS Guy
http://batcheero.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-enabledelayedexpansion.html
decribes one particular batch command (setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION)
that I'm encountering in a utility program designed to convert
multimedia video files from various formats into MKV format.
The utility program is called VID2EVA (http://www.vid2eva.com/)
I'm not sure what other commands or parameters invoked by this batch
file is specific to NT-based OS's, but this one in particular seems
somewhat important. Is there an equivalent function or statement that
can be used to replace this command when run under win-98?
The batch file itself is about 163 kb in size, and it can be downloaded
http://eoi.lefti.net/stuff/eva9000beta/VID2EVA%20Stable%20Releases/VID2EVA-2009-06-18.zip
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/19/2010382/VID2EVA.zip
I had to rename it from .bat to .txt for fileden to accept it.

I don't know of such a command.

IIRC, enclosing filespecs with wildcards in quotes prevents Win9x from
"helping" by expanding the wildcards and sends the wildcards intact to
where they were intended to go.

Todd Vargo

2011-05-01 03:59:10 UTC

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WARNING! The first .zip link wants to download a 48.2MB file.

The batch in the second .zip link can not be used in Win9x for more reasons
than just the lack of SETLOCAL. The following commands are also not valid in
Win9x.

CALL :LABELNAME
for /F "tokens=* delims="
Multiple line commands i.e. ) else (
Expansion of %0 using %~dp0
set /a
for /d
Nested FOR commands
NEQ, GEQ etc. are not valid with IF command
Variable substrings i.e. !DriveLetter:~0,1!
Spacces around == are relevent with IF command in Win9x
findstr.exe does not exist
:EOF is not an intrinsic label

Marcus Houlden

2011-05-01 13:47:42 UTC

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Why not use http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html instead? That does MKV
conversions and you don't need to mess around with batch files to do more
than one at a time.

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DOS Guy

2011-05-03 14:26:24 UTC

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Post by Marcus Houlden
Why not use http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html instead? That does
MKV conversions and you don't need to mess around with batch files
to do more than one at a time.

That program or "Suite" (if it can be called that) seems to have been
around for a while (dating back 3 or 4 years it seems). Some telling
comments about it here:

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SUPER

Most of those comments were made somewhat recently - within the past 2
months. And this in particular:

------------
Contains known spyware real media player that you can elect to not
install (though I am not sure if any of it was installed anyway) ALSO
CONTAINS TR/MEREDROP.A.3450 virus.
------------

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:SUPER_(software)

"When analyzed in more detail, the file DXdump.exe is found to be an
tElock protected file, full of strange exceptions to thwart analysis
which is strange considering it doesn't appear to do a lot."

"The SUPER install package and several of it's internal programs make
use of unconventional packer programs that are normally found to be used
by malware. All in all, even if this software is not malicious, it is
coded and packed as if it's hiding something."