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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 2 Questions
Message-ID: <1989Dec11.215559.10869@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 11 Dec 89 21:55:59 GMT
References: <1989Dec7.161200.20782@uunet!unhd>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <1989Dec7.161200.20782@uunet!unhd> rg@unhd.UUCP (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.
>
In the newer DOS (at least in 3.3) if you put '@echo off' as the first line,
not only does it turn echo off, but the 'echo off' message is also not
displayed.

>Just curious.
Aren't we all.

>-Roger
Over and out



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