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From: steve@micomvax.UUCP (Steve Grice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ECHO blank line?
Message-ID: <784@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 08:27:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: micomvax.784
Posted: Wed Aug 19 08:27:13 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 06:29:06 EDT
References: <278@laticorp.UUCP> <58200013@hplabsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: steve@micomvax.UUCP (Steve Grice)
Organization: Philips Information Systems Ltd., St. Laurent - Que., Canada
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In article <58200013@hplabsb.UUCP> neuhaus@hplabsb.UUCP (Peter Neuhaus) writes:
>Try "echo"<space><bs> where <space> is the space character and <BS>
>is the backspace character (decimal 8) which can be entered from the
>keyboard by holding the ALT key while typing 008 on the numeric pad.
>
>I used PC Write as an editor. Hopefully your editor allows the entry 
>of special characters using this method.
>
>Peter
> 

It's a lot easier to type ECHO:


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