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From: ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Joy of MSDOS
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Date: 19 Mar 88 01:07:42 GMT
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In article <3aee6925.44e6@apollo.uucp> nelson_p@apollo.uucp writes:
>
>  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!   
> 
	Hey, anyone who knows the answer to this gives me a response too,
will ya? Thanx

>  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? 

	Hummmm, Dos 3.20 has been good to me in that it does look
through the whold path for a file to be executed. One thing though,
when an executable looks for a "slave" file (like an overlay),
it doesn't even know that the path exists!!!

Fai Lau
SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
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