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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: dos 3.2 patches
Message-ID: <6065@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 16:02:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 16:02:01 1987
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: DOS 3.2 PATCHES


I have said this before, but I'll mention it again.

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      | You don't need patches to get blank echo lines in DOS |
      |_______________________________________________________|

in a batch file an ECHO command followed by exactly on dot will product
a blank line. Example: "ECHO."

This has been in every version of DOS since 2.0!! A patch for this
"problem" is not needed, and encourages writing batch files which are
not portable.

PS: in DOS3.3 you can put "@ECHO OFF" at the start of a batch file and
it will not be echoed. Microsoft listened on this one.

-- 
bill davidsen			sixhub \	ARPA: wedu@ge-crd.arpa
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward"