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From: horvath@granite.cr.bull.com (John Horvath)
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Subject: Re: How do I ECHO a blank line from batch file?
Keywords: batch file ECHO
Message-ID: <1990Mar28.182016.16893@granite.cr.bull.com>
Date: 28 Mar 90 18:20:16 GMT
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In article <4522@mace.cc.purdue.edu> du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein) writes:
>The other day while working on a little batch file I wanted to 
>put a blank line between two small paragraphs of text that get
>ECHOed to the screen, and was unable to do so. If you use ECHO
>...

I couldn't figure out a way with ECHO either, so I used a program to
output a CR-LF and referenced in the BAT file like:

	C:\tools\cr.exe
	echo This text is surrounded by two blank lines.
	C:\tools\cr.exe

You could make cr.exe in either C with:
	main() { printf("\n"); }

But the .exe will take up 7000 bytes or do it in assembler and use
only 500. Not being a fluent assembler programmer, the following
example could probably be abreviated.

;Turbo assembler source for outputing CR-LF
; TASM cr.asm
; TLINK cr.obj
;
	DOSSEG
	.MODEL SMALL
	.STACK 100H

	.DATA
cr_chr	db 13,10,'$'

	.CODE
crlf	proc	near

; set up data segement
	mov	ax,@Data
	mov	ds,ax

; print out the string
	mov	ah,9
	mov	dx, OFFSET cr_chr
	int	21h

; exit code
	mov	ah,4ch
	int	21h

crlf	ENDP
	end	crlf