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From: simrin@mis.ucsf.edu (Steve Simrin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Echo Off!   Dammit!
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Date: 24 Mar 88 21:02:54 GMT
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In article <149000020@inmet> bloom@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
>	With DOS 3.3 (don't know about earlier), lines in a batch file
>that begin with the character '@' are not echoed.
>
>	Therefore, if the first line is '@ECHO OFF', no lines are echoed
>to the console.

The following also works (sort of):

		echo off
		echo ^[[s^[[1A^[K^[[u

where "^[" is an escape character. This "trick" works in DOS 2.0 + and
requires ansi.sys.