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From: sarah@laticorp.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ECHO a blank line
Message-ID: <279@laticorp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 12:12:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 12:12:45 1987
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References: <4324@amd.AMD.COM>
Organization: LatiCorp, Inc., San Francisco
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Summary: ECHO. doesn't work on Sperry DOS

In article <4324@amd.AMD.COM>, reeves@amd.AMD.COM (JR) writes:
> After posting the previous arcticle about ECHOing a blank line
> using hex FF , I tried a few other things and realized that the EASIEST
> way is to simply type ECHO. (NOTE THE PERIOD DIRECTLY FOLLWING THE WORD
> ECHO) This will give a blank line but will NOT print the (.) If you want to print a period put a spcae after the word ECHO 
> 
> This method is much more straight forward than  the last perversion I posted.
> 
> J. Reeves


Under Sperry DOS 3.1, typing ECHO. will echo "ECHO is on" (or off).  ECHO.
does seem to work on every other DOS I've tried (MS, PC).

The suggestion which I received via e-mail from several people was to
echo either hex FF (per your original suggestion), or echo a delete
character or decimal 255 (using ALT 127 for delete, ALT 255 for the other).
That works on Sperry DOS also.

The solution I've gone for is to echo a delete character.  Can anyone think
of a reason why that might be a bad idea? 

Many thanks to everyone who has responded--I was not always able to get
mail back to the people who sent me mail.

Sarah Groves Hobart