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From: rmich@Lise.Unit.NO (Rolf Michelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: ECHOing > < | & in command.com
Keywords: echo, command.com
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Date: 30 Nov 90 10:08:55 GMT
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Henk Fictorie (henk@dnlunx) asks how to echo the special characters < > & | from a batch file.

I haven't tested this, but the standard way of passing special characters as parameters is to enclose the entire parameter in double quotes. You could try something like this:  ECHO "this is a <silly> test"