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From: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: ECHO ON default
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 12:18:45 EDT
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In article <836@kodak.UUCP> gardner@kodak.UUCP (dick gardner) writes:
>In article <1687@bnrmxtv.UUCP> connery@bnrmtv.UUCP writes:
>>>    When I execute a batch file, it
>>> shows all the commands bing executed.
>>> But when I set ECHO OFF , you STILL
>>> SEE THE SATEMENT "ECHO OFF".
>>>              Rob DeMarco
>>
>Could it be that after you 'turned ECHO OFF' that you then try to
>echo a blank line?   I'm pretty sure that this will result in  the
>'ECHO OFF' statement being printed each time you try to do that.

Nope.  If you think about it, what is happening makes perfect sense
from DOS's point of view.  All commands are echoed to the console
unless echo is off; echo off is a command; until echo off is executed,
echo is still on, so the echo off line is shown to the user.  While
this probably doesn't help you accomplish what you want, that's how
it works.  You could try playing with ANSI escape sequences and set
the character attribute to invisible to hide the command, but that
may be more trouble than you want.

					- Tony
					  catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
					  catone@wharton.upenn.edu