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From: connery@bnrmtv.UUCP (Glenn Connery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ECHO OFF in DOS 3.1 and rename
Message-ID: <915@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 19:05:57 EST
Article-I.D.: bnrmtv.915
Posted: Fri Nov 14 19:05:57 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Nov-86 23:52:10 EST
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA
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I had been having the same problem with rename, that it wouldn't allow
a path on the first parameter, but I never thought it might have something
to do with the patch to command.com.  Anyway, I backed out the patch to
default autoexec.bat to echo off and it fixed the problem.  It also fixed
a problem with not being able to ctrl-break out of batch files.  The
two patches are:

xxxx:1967 01 --> 00

changes echo on to off for all normal batch files and does not cause any
problems with renames or anything else that I can see, and:

xxxx:105B 03 --> 02

changes echo on to off for autoexec.bat and seems to cause a number of
strange problems.  anyway, I suggest not doing the latter patch, but the
former seems fine...
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Glenn Connery, Bell Northern Research, Mountain View, CA
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