Does Windows batch support exception handling?

Question

Does Windows batch programming support exception handling? If not, is there any way to effectively emulate exception handling within batch files?

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Answer 1

using the successCmd && ( failingCmd & (call ) ) || ( excHandlingCmd ) syntax is quite nice for a lot of cases and does not require any additional files as also described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17085933/1915920

(the dummy (call ) is only for the case the 2nd (last) cmd fails)