Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Echo Off!   Solution!
Message-ID: <10063@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 23 Mar 88 14:56:33 GMT
References: <2110@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1256@nbires.nbi.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1256@nbires.nbi.com> maa@nbires.UUCP (Mark Armbrust) writes:
| [...]
| What this does is does is to back up a line and erase the "echo off" that
| MS-DOS so kindly left behind.  So it's a KLUDGE...flame Microsoft, not me!

Why flame Microsoft. When users requested a feature they provided it. In
DOS 3.3 you can put a @ (as I recall) in column one of any command and
it will not be echoed. Your solution is very useful, if ugly.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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