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From: ferrel@btni.UUCP (Roger Ferrel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: echo <|>
Keywords: DOS batch file echoing special characters
Message-ID: <801@btni.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 89 21:17:51 GMT
Organization: Boys Town National Institute, Omaha
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I have a problem with DOS batch files that I'm sure others have run
across in the past.  In its simplest terms I want the echo command in a
batch file to return the string:

                <|>

The closest I've been able to come is the string:

                "<|>"

by doing:       echo "<|>"

Is there some escape character I've missed that would allow me to do:

                echo  \<\|\>

where the \ is the escape charcter that goes away when the string is
echoed?

In case it makes a difference I'm running MS-DOS 4.01.

Yes I know the string can be placed in a file and the batch command can
then type the file, but that is avoiding the problem I'm trying to find
a solution to.
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