Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucdavis!spked!croft
From: croft@spked.UUCP (Steve Croft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Joy of MSDOS
Message-ID: <183@spked.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 05:14:59 GMT
References: <3aee6925.44e6@apollo.uucp> <9429@sunybcs.UUCP>
Organization: Sacramento Engineer District
Lines: 12
Summary: don't echo the "echo"

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!   

DOS 3.3 not echo commands that are preceded with "@"...   hence
       @echo off
will not get echoed.

steve
...ucdavis!csusac!athena!crofts