Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!m2c!jjmhome!cloud9!dts
From: dts@cloud9.UUCP (Daniel Senie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need "echo off" patch for DOS 3.3
Summary: echo off for DOS 3.3
Keywords: echo off patch
Message-ID: <396@cloud9.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 88 01:54:25 GMT
References: <287@fxgrp.UUCP>
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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In DOS 3.3, you do NOT need to patch COMMAND.COM to turn off echo as
the default in BATCH files. There is a single character you can place in
front of batch file statements which will prevent them from echoing.
If you do this to the "echo off" statement in the beginning of a batch
file, the rest of the file will remain quiet.

The character is something like "@" or "!", and is documented in the
BATCH commands section of the IBM PC-DOS manual. (Which of course is
at my office and I'm at home...).


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