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From: baird@cod.NOSC.MIL (John M. Baird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: echo <|>
Message-ID: <1578@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 18 Jul 89 14:30:51 GMT
References: <801@btni.UUCP>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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From article <801@btni.UUCP>, by ferrel@btni.UUCP (Roger Ferrel):
> 
>                                            I want the echo command in a
> batch file to return the string:
>                 <|>
> The closest I've been able to come is the string:
>                 "<|>"
Sorry, there is no escape character (in the UNIX sense). About the closest
you can come is
     echo "^H<|>"^Hspace
where ^H is a Ctrl-H (backspace), and space is the space character. Depending
on your display driver, the speed at which the ^H backs up over the preceeding
characater will probably be fast enough to be invisible to the viewer of the
message produced by the echo command.

John Baird Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA