The Old New Thing

August 6, 2008 - The Old New Thing

The caret serves as the continuation character for batch files

August 6, 2008 Aug 6, 2008 08/6/08
Raymond Chen
We saw earlier that the caret is the escape character for the batch language. In a comment to that article, KJK::Hyperion mentioned that the caret serves as the line continuation character. A useful tip if you still find yourself messing with batch files. Mark Yocum elaborates on this point a bit more...

What’s with this MSH_MOUSEWHEEL message?

August 6, 2008 Aug 6, 2008 08/6/08
Raymond Chen
The hardware folks had this mouse wheel thing they were making, and they needed a way to get applications to support the mouse. Now, one way of doing this was to say, "Well, we'll start selling this wheel mouse, but no applications can use it until the next version of Windows is released, one that supports the wheel." Of course, that would ...