Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: I/O Redirection in Remarks
Message-ID: <23365@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 89 15:35:42 GMT
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Yep, the shell unavoidably treats `<', `>', and `|' as redirection in
all MS-DOS versions I remember.  This applies to the "echo" command
as well as "remark"s, but NOT to labels that start with colons.

I don't use remarks in batch files much; the ":label" works better as a
remark (unless the first word matches an actual label in the file) than
real remarks do --- two fewer characters, cleaner appearance, no stupid
redirection.