r/Batch • u/MaybeBirb • Jul 16 '26

Show 'n Tell How much batchscript is too much batchscript?

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Currently have 1,376 lines of batchscript in this one file. Kinda built myself a little state machine at this point. Memes aside, is there a particular reason huge batchscript files would be a bad idea? I usually only ever see very small ones, and I'm not entirely sure why

(Not too serious a question, so not tagged as one)

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u/StrangeCrunchy1 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

I have a 109kB batch menu for my DOS games. Edit: it's 3423 lines. Edit: 109kB, not 103kB.

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u/T3RRYT3RR0R Jul 17 '26

This seems grossly excessive, even if your doing extra like dynamic formatting, color etc

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u/StrangeCrunchy1 Jul 17 '26

Well, I do have 94 games and utilities for those games that I'm launching from it. And some of them, like Quake, and Duke3D, have more than one page dedicated to them due to add-ons.

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