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From: sobol@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Steven Sobol)
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Subject: Re: Redirecting 4Dos output? ( > nul is bad)
Message-ID: <1990Mar25.045703.10182@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 90 04:57:03 GMT
References: <17026@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: sobol@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Steven Sobol)
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In article <17026@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, Lee Gates writes:
>
>	After some dishartening attempts, I have rtfm, and not figured
>out the change to redirect output to nul.  I have several batch files
>I use daily, and after installing the new version of 4Dos, they aren't
>getting along too well.
>
>	I had statements like:
>execute.exe > nul
>	And 4Dos responded with access denied.  So, after reading, tried
>the >! and the >& options, and still no real progress.
>
>	I may have missed something (hope not), but how does one keep 
>the batch file quiet?  
>
Try putting a colon after NUL (although you shouldn't have to do that.)
If you want to not echo a line in a batch, put a "@" as the first character
in the line. To not echo the whole file, use "@Echo off" as the first line.
If you have any more problems, email me...



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