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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: Running batch files without echoing commands
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 10:44:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 10:44:08 1985
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> Hi...
> 
> 	Does anybody know how to run a batch file in msdos without
> any echoing of commands. I hate to use `echo off` as the first command
> because then "echo off" is echoed!!
> 
> 								thanx alot,
> 								schwady

I always use "echo off" as the first line, followed by the escape sequence
that jumps the cursor to the beginning or the line, then the sequence that
erases the line, then the sequence that moves the cursor up a line (to
compensate for the newline after the "echo off") -- this leaves the screen
and cursor as you would want them, but the "echo off" flashes momentarily
while all this is going on.  Shabby, kludgy, awful -- but it works, if you
have "device=ansi.sys" in your "config.sys" file.

Stuff that provides gratuitous output, like the copy command, can be silenced
by the following:

	copy *.* newdir > nul

By the way -- does anybody know how to rename a directory without creating
a new one and copying all the files into it?
-- 
Ed Nather
Astronony Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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