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From: brandon@tdi2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS command doesn't work in batch file when "echo off"
Message-ID: <149@tdi2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 12:01:59 EST
Article-I.D.: tdi2.149
Posted: Wed Mar 18 12:01:59 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 21:44:53 EST
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Reply-To: brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Organization: Tridelta Industries, Inc., Mentor, OH
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Quoted from <5792@mimsy.UUCP> ["DOS command in batch file does not work when "echo off""], by deba@mimsy.UUCP (Deba Patnaik)...
+---------------
| PROMPT command does not work when "ECHO OFF'" but works when
| "ECHO ON". These are the lines in the batch file.
| 
| ECHO OFF
| IF %1 == RED PROMPT $e[41m
| IF %1 == GREEN PROMPT $e[42m
| 
| If you have a CGA card try it with echo on and off. If you know
| the reason why it does not work please let me know. Hope it is
| not a bug in 3.1 DOS.
+---------------

Works fine from AUTOEXEC.BAT on both mono and color (different prompt strings,
of course) under DOS 2.11 and DOS 3.1, on my system.

++Brandon
-- 
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