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From: stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve_Kite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS batch quirks and environment variable weirdness.
Message-ID: <1400055@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 13:33:27 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.102216.15639@csun.edu>
Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
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To echo a blank line in a batch file, use echo ALT-255.  ALT-255
a non-printable character, but your batch file doesn't know
that, so it will print a blank line.

If you are doing a lot of batch files, you might consider switching
to 4DOS.  It has some nice features for use in them, such as:

if/then
iff/else iff/else iff/...

and several more.  I also have heard that the next versiont will
enhance these and add a couple of more commands for batch
files.



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