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From: barron@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Daniel P. Barron)
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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: 11 Apr 90 15:44:40 GMT
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[original post asking how to echo blank lines lost]

In article <1990Apr10.035600.22405@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US> strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Tim Bowser) writes:
>   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.

Easiest way I've found is to echo a control-h.  There should be a way
in any word process to quote a control character into your document.
Often it's CRTL-Q (for quote) or something similar.  So you type

  echo [^Q][^H]

The ^Q should not appear and your line should look like:

  echo ^H

which will echo a blank, and it should not interfere with anything.
CTRL-H is just a backspace, after all.

Surely this is a well known trick, no?

db

p.s. Apologies if this has been posted already.


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