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From: nelson_p@apollo.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Joy of MSDOS
Message-ID: <3aee6925.44e6@apollo.uucp>
Date: 18 Mar 88 18:45:00 GMT
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 I just bought a PC and I'm becoming familiar with MSDOS.
 I must admit that I haven't decided whether MSDOS is a 
 real operating system or a toy operating system.  Two
 questions:

  Is there any way to create batch files that don't echo 
  their contents to the screen?  If I precede the other 
  commands in the .BAT file with 'ECHO OFF' then the @#&%*!
  'ECHO OFF' gets echoed!   
 
  Why does the PATH command only apply to some kinds of files
  and not others?   If you're going to have a 'where to look'
  feature for the computer why limit the types of files it 
  applies to? 
 
 I understand that these 'features' are *somewhat* corrected in
 MSDOS 3.3 (I have 3.2).   I actually own a copy of 3.3.  Unfortun-
 ately 3.3 has a bug  (driveparm is not recognized) which results
 in 3.5" drives not working correctly.  Microsoft claims that they
 will offer a fix for this in a month or two.  Since my machine has 
 both a 5.25" and 3.5" drive (plus a hard disk) I'm stuck for now
 with MSDOS3.2 .      
                                         --Peter Nelson