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From: sbnicol@rose.waterloo.edu (Scott Nicol)
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Subject: Re: How do I ECHO a blank line from batch file?
Keywords: batch file ECHO
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Date: 28 Mar 90 20:33:41 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 echoing a backspace.  Seriously, it worked for me.  The line
would look something like:

	echo \8

where \8 is the backspace character.  You should be able to generate it
by holding down the alt key, hitting 8 on your numeric keypad, and
then releasing the alt key.  If your editor doesn't like this, you could
always enter it as "echo  " and use debug to change the second space
to a backspace.

- Scott