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From: du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do I ECHO a blank line from batch file?
Message-ID: <4524@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 90 18:51:10 GMT
References: <8710@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein)
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In article <8710@lindy.Stanford.EDU> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
->In article <4522@mace.cc.purdue.edu>,
->du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein) writes:
->>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
->Try
->
->echo.
->
->Richard Stanton


Thank you Richard, and all the kind folks who sent me E-mail. After
some quick tests I found that 'ECHO.' , 'ECHO\' and ECHO '<ALT255>'
all will echo a blank as I wanted. Those of you who said in E-mail 
that you use ALT255 but found it cumbersome should give echo. a try.
Thanks again !