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From: metzger@cup.portal.com (David G Metzger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do I ECHO a blank line from batch file?
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Date: 28 Mar 90 21:43:58 GMT
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du4> The other day while working on a little batch file I wanted to
du4> put a blank line between two small paragraphs of text that get
du4> ECHOed to the screen, and was unable to do so. If you use ECHO
du4> by itself, it says 'ECHO is off'. I tried putting  some spaces
du4> after it, but it didn't help. There should be simple answer to
du4> this, but I seem to be missing it. Any advice would be greatly
du4> appreciated.

A null character (control-@) after the "echo" command works fine with
MS-DOS 3.20.

For example:

    echo This prints on line 1.
    echo <insert null character here>
    echo This prints on line 3.

Of course you're editor will have to allow you to put a "nul" there.
(I use Sidekick's notepad editor for quick and dirty stuff like this.)

                                   David Metzger
                                   metzger@cup.portal.com
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