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From: bobmon@iucs.UUCP (RAMontante [condition that I not be identified])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS Echo off patch
Message-ID: <4750@iucs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 11:01:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 11:01:29 1987
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Reply-To: bobmon@iucs.UUCP (RAMontante [condition that I not be identified])
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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>I can't help but responed to this one...  :-)
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>Page 7-39 in the manual says:
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>	To prevent a batch file line form being displayed
>	you can palce a @ before the command.
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>Oh... you mean you don't have a manual?

And I can't help but respond... 8-)

Chapter 7 is only 20 pages long, and it's talking about directory structure,
nothing about batch files.

Oh... you mean your manual isn't for Zenith's MS-DOS 3.1?

Seriously... I think we all forget occasionally that this group
is read by people more experienced AND LESS experienced than us, and that
some of those who most need help are least prepared to realize how much
variation there is in "DOS", even when it appears to be the same version
number (viz., PC-DOS 3.1 vs. Zenith MS-DOS 3.1 vs TI MS-DOS 3.1 -- the biggest
thing they have in common is the almost-CP/M file-naming convention we all
inherited from PC-DOS 1.0 :-).  Most DOS documentation is not written to
be easy reading for inexperienced/new users, so they may not have found that
particular item among their zero-to-four-or-more manuals; and maybe it's
just not there, in that version.  (None of the various "echo-off" patches
work for me, including this one (yes, I tried it, even though I know it came
out AFTER v3.1, what the heck...no, it doesn't work)).

Please, people, when you talk about particular feature of DOS, especially
features that have escaped someone's attention, indicate what flavor of DOS
you're talking about.

Be kind to the ignorant -- we were (are?) in that condition too.

Bob Montante