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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: strings in DOS 3.0
Keywords: DOS 3.0, batch
Message-ID: <8232@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 89 17:34:42 GMT
References: <7342@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <7342@ecsvax.UUCP> harris@ecsvax.UUCP (Mark Harris) writes:
>In DOS 2.1 and 3.3 the batch file has the desired effect: HI THERE is
>echoed.  In DOS 3.0, only HI is echoed.

The general rule for MS-DOS, violations of which are unknown, is that
MS-DOS version n.0 always has many bugs, and one should always wait for
version n.10 or higher.

You might try this:

     set A=HI
     set B=THERE
     ...
     set MSG=%A% %B%
     echo %MSG%
     set MSG=

The last line recovers lost environment space.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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