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From: jamesd@percival.UUCP (James Deibele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BATCH files that do not echo
Message-ID: <1178@percival.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 04:35:25 GMT
References: <3aee6925.44e6@apollo.uucp> <2412@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jamesd@percival.UUCP (James Deibele)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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    I assume that the original poster is trying to write a batch file that
is semi-"pretty" --- clears the screen, moves the cursor down a few lines,
then prints some message like "Going to format your hard drive now.  Y'all
sure y'all want to do this?"  The easiest way I know of to do that is to
use ECHO Alt-255.  That's done by holding down the Alt key and pressing 2,
5,5 on the numeric keypad.  Works with all DOS's that I've used (2.1 - 3.21).
Sample fragment:

echo off
cls
echo (alt-255)
echo (alt-255)
echo       Hi.  I'm going to destroy everything on your hard disk.
echo       If you don't want to do this, press Ctrl-Break.
pause
format C:

etc.

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