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From: agnew@trwrc.UUCP (R.A. Agnew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ECHO blank line?
Message-ID: <208@trwrc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 14:34:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwrc.208
Posted: Wed Aug 26 14:34:24 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 03:34:01 EDT
References: <278@laticorp.UUCP> <14286@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: agnew@trwrc.UUCP (R.A. Agnew)
Organization: TRW/MEAD San Diego, Ca.
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Keywords: echo, blank

In article <14286@watmath.waterloo.edu> mdharding@watmath.waterloo.edu (Matt) writes:
>In article <278@laticorp.UUCP> sarah@laticorp.UUCP (Sarah Groves Hobart) writes:
>>
>You tried every single combo except the right one: As was posted nine million  
>times before on the net:
>
>Try echo. (echo NO SPACE period). 
>
Sorry, but like the man said this either prints "ECHO is on" or 
"ECHO is off" on MS DOS V3.10 and most others. There are patches
to DOS (version dependant) to fix this.