Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!usc!csun!Twg-S5!abcscnuk From: abcscnuk@Twg-S5.uucp (Naoto Kimura (ACM)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS batch quirks and environment variable weirdness. Keywords: In article <1400055@hp-ptp.HP.COM> stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve_Kite) writes: Message-ID: <1990Oct18.032359.14406@csun.edu> Date: 18 Oct 90 03:23:59 GMT References: <1990Oct15.102216.15639@csun.edu> <1400055@hp-ptp.HP.COM> Sender: news@csun.edu (News Administrator) Organization: csun Lines: 21 Actually, to be nit-picky, using ASCII 255 doesn't make ECHO output a blank line... Nor is that character an 'unprintable'... it just happens to be an INVISIBLE character -- like ASCII 0. The unfortunate thing about these invisible characters is that that sometimes I've run into situations where they become visible, especially if you try to use a terminal as the console. One other annoying thing with the command processor is that there was no means by which you can get the date and time w/o getting a prompt. Of course I've done things like make a file with only a newline (note you CAN'T create one by doing echo.>newline since it contains a space before the newline!) in a text editor and doing the following date