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From: ppd491@leah.Albany.Edu (Peter P. Donohue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 2 Questions
Summary: simple fix
Message-ID: <2258@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 8 Dec 89 13:59:46 GMT
References: <1989Dec7.161200.20782@uunet!unhd>
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Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In article <1989Dec7.161200.20782@uunet!unhd>, rg@uunet!unhd (Roger Gonzalez ) writes:
> My second question pertains to "ECHO OFF".  Is there a program kicking
> around that sets the ECHO toggle to be initially off?  I'm sick of setting
> it at the beginning of every batch file.  Has there been a change from old
> DOSes?  I seem to remember that if you did "ECHO OFF" at the prompt instead
> of in a batch file, it would ignore it.  Now, it does what you'd expect.
>

   If you use @ECHO OFF, the command is not displayed.

   A few other notes of interest:
 - ECHO/  ECHO:  ECHO\  and ECHO.  will all produce a blank line.
 - ECHO "three > two"  will print "three > two" rather than putting
'three' into a file called two. Using quotes can remove the commands
from '>', '<', and '|', but the quotes get printed. 

						Pete
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