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From: amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Echo Off!   Dammit!
Message-ID: <2110@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 20 Mar 88 16:56:22 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
Lines: 19
Keywords: no hope

A wise man once asked:
>>  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!   

>C:> x.bat > nul
> Cliff Joslyn, Professional Cybernetician 

BZZT!  You can't do this.  Output of a batch file cannot be redirected
wholesale.  To pursue this further, echo off >nul as the first line of
the batch file also will not work.  DOS really wanted to screw you over
on this little flaw, and I think they succeeded.

-- 
amlovell@phoenix.princeton.edu     ...since 1963.

disclaimer:
These are MY opinions.  You only WISH they were yours.