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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:
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Date: 19 Oct 90 01:11:31 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.032359.14406@csun.edu> abcscnuk@Twg-S5.uucp (Naoto Kimura (ACM)) writes:
>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<newline.
>
>]~  steve kite     -   hp-ptp!stevek   -   stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM  ~
>]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>                //-n-\\			 Naoto Kimura
>        _____---=======---_____		 (abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu)
>    ====____\   /.. ..\   /____====
>  //         ---\__O__/---         \\	Enterprise... Surrender or we'll
>  \_\                             /_/	send back your *&^$% tribbles !!

 MAAALTZ!! JOOL-YI CHOO!  (Klingon for "Maltz! Beam me Up!" - Kirk, ST III)


Blank lines in a .BAT? No problem....

ECHO:

...printing the date:

ECHO:|DATE 
 

Putting the date on a file :

ECHO:|DATE >> DATE.LOG

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