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From: nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.0 patch for ECHO OFF default
Summary: Program to fix shells from DOS 3.1 ... 4.0
Message-ID: <9470@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 89 22:29:10 GMT
References: <Jan.13.16.00.06.1989.17544@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <Jan.13.16.00.06.1989.17544@elbereth.rutgers.edu>, kkelly@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Kevin Kelly) writes:
> 
> Does anyone have a patch for IBM DOS 4.0 that makes ECHO OFF the
> default for batch files?  I've used such a patch on DOS 3.{1,2,3} so I
> would like to maintain the feature as I upgrade.

I got tired of this hassle, and wrote a program to modify a copy of
command.com, setting ECHO OFF as the default.  It works on MS-DOS 3.1,
3.2, 3.3 and (I'm told) 4.0 so far.  Unless the coding is changed
drastically it might even work on future versions.  It was written for
MS-DOS 3.1 and 3.3; I found it also worked on 3.2, and a friend says
it works on 4.0 as well.

Syntax: shellfix command.com

Be sure you run it on a COPY.  It tells you if it fails.
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Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin