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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: PC-Dos 3.1 and Echo Off (The Answer)
Message-ID: <338@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 21:54:31 EST
Article-I.D.: utastro.338
Posted: Thu Feb  6 21:54:31 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 06:19:45 EST
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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Keywords: Quiet autoexec, too

Thanks to all who replied, or posted answers, to my original query. Since
I wanted a totally quiet set of batch files, including autoexec.bat, I made
the two changes below to my command.com.  My .bat files now run silently
without the need for "echo off" as the first line, and without any need to
erase the unwanted "echo off" echo.  The first correction shuts up the
autoexec.bat file on its first invocation, the second speads quiet over
both normal .bat files and those invoked with a second command.com, yet
lets the DOS prompt show up when needed.  Ideal.  Just the way Microsoft
could have done it in the first place.

>From: Mark D. Freeman, who credits
PC Magazine, November 26, 1985, page 235:

To set the default to echo off in both autoexec.bat and other batch files for
DOS 3.1 only:

debug command.com
-e 105B 2
-e 1967 0
-w
-q

Now, if I could just get the VDISK setup routine to do its job without
bragging about it on the screen ...
-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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