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From: ddrex@gorgo.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Changing SWITCHAR in dos 3.x
Message-ID: <12600005@gorgo.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Jun-86 07:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  1 07:34:00 1986
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Nf-From: gorgo.UUCP!ddrex    Jun  1 06:34:00 1986


/* Written  9:47 am  May 23, 1986 by nather@ut-sally.UUCP in gorgo.UUCP:net.micro */
In article <883@brl-smoke.ARPA>, bridger@RAND-UNIX.arpa writes:
> This doesn't work for dos 3.1.  Is there another way to do it?

Yes.  Put the stuff between the two lines of dashes into a file
called fixcom, then type the command

     debug command.com < fixcom

and lo! "echo off" is silent unless you insist on chatter.
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e 105b 2
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-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
{allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather
nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
/* End of text from gorgo.UUCP:net.micro */

That had some rude side effects on my system (pcdos 3.1 on an XT clone).
ECHO didn't, but ERRORLEVEL went away, too (always returned 0 after that
hack), and CED forgot all about synonyms. Restoring the original command.com
restored all those. I'd rather have dos chatter at me than put up with
cpm-oid dumbness.

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