Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!iraq!halvers From: halvers@iraq.steinmetz (peter c halverson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Echo Off! Dammit! Message-ID: <10117@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 26 Mar 88 19:10:51 GMT References: <2110@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <39500009@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Sender: news@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: iraq!halvers@steinmetz.UUCP (peter c halverson) Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 32 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 ?????? Those of us who are trying to encapsulate and hide the particularly ugly details of MS-DOS from naive users who think that "C>" is arcane enough, without seeing the kludge/magic of "batch" (hmmph) files. Those of us who care about a reasonably clean user interface, i.e. one without extraneous crap [no comments about the oxymoronicism of "MS-DOS" and "clean user interface"]. Those of us who are driven bonkers by the continued presence of an onerous "feature" that should never have survived beta test, much less lived past version 1.1. >This is just another stupid mountain-out-of-molehill posting so >typical of this newsgroup. Unfortunately, this is one of those questions that continually pops up, in various guises, on just about every newsgroup. It'd be nice if everybody would recognize these for what they are, wait for one person to gently post a short answer, and move on, but that isn't going to happen. Getting your dander up won't do much -- I've seen very few meta-flames that did much more than compensate for the flamer's bad day at work (and I guess this could be considered a (hopefully mild) meta-meta-flame :-) >Andrew Wylie, University of London Computer Centre, ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Pete Halverson ARPA: halverson@ge-crd.ARPA GE Corporate R&D Center UUCP: uunet!steinmetz!iraq!halvers Schenectady, NY halvers@iraq.steinmetz.UUCP