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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
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Subject: Re: How do I ECHO a blank line from batch file?
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Date: 28 Mar 90 17:23:32 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
>by itself, it says 'ECHO is off'. I tried putting  some spaces
>after it, but it didn't help. There should be simple answer to
>this, but I seem to be missing it. Any advice would be greatly
>appreciated.

Try

echo.

Richard Stanton