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From: strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Tim Bowser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do I ECHO a blank line from batch file?
Keywords: batch file ECHO
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.035600.22405@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
Date: 10 Apr 90 03:56:00 GMT
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davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

>Add a dot (ECHO.). This *is* in the manual, I found it there once upon a
>time, but I couldn't find it again to tell you where I found it.
>Obscure, and all that.
>-- 
>bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
>    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
>    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
>"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

   ECHO. is for MS-DOS 3.3 and up.  Having used DOS 3.2 for awhile, I 
know that trick doesn't work with it or lower (Sister swiped some of my 
batch files for use on her 2.11 based machine).

   The <alt>255 trick might not be documented per se in the DOS manuals, 
but is a recommended procedure in the DOS Power Tools book from PC Mag.  
I have seen and used it with all flavors of DOS and have yet to see it 
cause any grief.

   ECHO . is not the same as (echo.).  NO space between, or it will echo 
the dot in any version of DOS.

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