Client deployment batch file "silent.bat" has odd chars in it

Epicor ERP 10
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Tried using the silent.bat program that is created when you run the Client Deployment program with the full GUI. But it generates an error.

Using the DOS TYPE command shows:

It looks like there are some non ascii characters at the beginning of the file. I opened the BAT file with notepad and everything looks okay. I even tried saving it to a different file. But those characters carry forward.

Anyone know what is going on here.

UPDATE:

I opened the .BAT file in a hex editor and see the following:

Simply doing a SaveAs in notepad copied those chars to the new file. I ended up copying the text in Notepad, then creating a new (blank) file, pasted and saved and it worked.

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I think the problem is that Vis Studio (which creates the batch file) uses UTF-8 instead of ANSI

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/854360/visual-studio-inserts-invalid-characters-in-batch-files

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Hi Calvin,

Could be a Byte Order Mark - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark. Try changing the encoding when saving the file.

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Mark W.