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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Patches to PC-DOS 3.30
Message-ID: <8051@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 17:01:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 17:01:14 1987
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In article <5986@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> As for blank echos, if you put a dot
> after the echo command (and nothing else) it just gives you a blank
> line (as: "echo."). That's been in every version since 2.0!

Has it, now!  I've been collecting DOS patches for over 2 years, and this is
the first time I've seen this one.  (It works ... I just tried it).

Aint Microsoft documentation just wunnerful?

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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