fixed the problem myself

[rune1]

why will it not echo this

@echo off
echo ./\.
echo |^^^^^^^^^| ./LLLL\.
echo |`.'`.`'`'| ./LLLLLLLL\.
echo |.'`'.'`.'|/LLLL/^^\LLLL\.
echo |.`.''``./LLLL/^ () ^\LLLL\.
echo |.'`.`./LLLL/^ = = ^\LLLL\.
echo |.`../LLLL/^ _.----._ ^\LLLL\.
echo |'./LLLL/^ =.' ______ `. ^\LLLL\.
echo |/LLLL/^ /|--.----.--|\ = ^\LLLL\.
echo ./LLLL/^ = |=|__|____|__|=| ^\LLLL\.
echo ./LLLL/^= |*|~~|~~~~|~~|*| = ^\LLLL\.
echo ./LLLL/^ |=|--|----|--|=| ^\LLLL\.
echo ./LLLL/^ = `-|__|____|__|-' = ^\LLLL\.
echo /LLLL/^ = `------------' = ^\LLLL\
echo ~~|.~ = = = = ~.|~~
echo || = = = ____ = = ||
echo || = .-' '-. = ||
echo || _..._ = .' .-()-. '. = _..._ = ||
echo || = .'_____`. /___:______:___\ .'_____`. ||
echo || .-|---.---|-. || _ _ || .-|---.---|-. ||
echo || |=| | |=| || | || | || |=| | |=| ||
echo || |=|___|___|=|= || | || | ||= |=|___|___|=| ||
echo || |=|~~~|~~~|=| || | || | || |=|~~~|~~~|=| ||
echo || |*| | |*| || | || | || =|*| | |*| ||
echo || |=|---|---|=| = || | || | || |=|---|---|=| ||
echo || |=| | |=| || | || | || |=| | |=| ||
echo || `-|___|___|-' ||o|_||_| || `-|___|___|-' ||
echo || '---------` = || _ _ || = `---------' ||
echo || = = || | || | || = = ||
echo || %@& &@ = || |_||_| || = @&@ %@ = ||
echo || %@&@% @%@&@ _||________||_ &@%&@ %&@&@ ||
echo ||,,\\V//\\V//, _|___|------|___|_ ,\\V//\\V//,,||
echo |--------------|____/--------\____|--------------|
echo /- _ - _ - _ - _ - - _ - _ _ - _ _- - _ - _ \
echo /____________________________________________________\
pause

[atfon]

Certain special characters like | require escaping. See the comments and the 1 answer in this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/688 ... 1#75099921