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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Echo Off!   Dammit!
Message-ID: <10931@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 88 17:08:59 GMT
References: <2110@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <39500009@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <39500009@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk>, awylie@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk writes:
> 
> But who the hell cares if ECHO OFF gets echoed ??????

I do.

I've put together a Unix-like system for MS-DOS that makes use of batch
files as command names, and a lot of people use it.  I want all the commands
to look the same to the user, whether they are realized in asm code, in C,
or as batch files.  Ohterwise novice users get confused.

> This is just another stupid mountain-out-of-molehill posting so
> typical of this newsgroup.
> 

I don't agree, but I think your posting meets the criterion of uselessness.
And transatlantic, too!

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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