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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Joy of MSDOS
Message-ID: <1979@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 88 04:42:46 GMT
References: <3aee6925.44e6@apollo.uucp> <9429@sunybcs.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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Since several people seem to want to know the answers:


> 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

In DOS 3.3, you can preceed any batch file command with an @ sign to
disable echo -- so you start out a batch file you want to run silently with
@ECHO OFF.

> 
> >  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

Smart programs know to you look at Argv[0] to get the starting program's
home directory.  Stupid programs should be able to work with the APPEND
command in DOS 3.3.  It is supposed to allow a list of directories to
be searched for data files.

Clayton E. Cramer