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From: ear@duke.UUCP (Eric A. Raymond)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Shutting up the batch files
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Date: Thu, 1-May-86 16:53:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  1 16:53:07 1986
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In article <1727@hound.UUCP> singhal@hound.UUCP (S.SINGHAL) writes:

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

Does anyone out there have similar patches for DOS 3.0 ?

>
>Now, if I could just get the VDISK setup routine to do its job without
>bragging about it on the screen ...
>

That's easy, just redirect the output to the null device (nul:).
(i.e. append "> nul:" at the end of your Device= line in your config.sys)


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Eric A. Raymond                                   UUCP: ...decvax!mcnc!duke!ear