Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpsmtc1!swh From: swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 4.0 patch for ECHO OFF default Message-ID: <11470044@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> Date: 19 Jan 89 16:19:23 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 18 Re: DOS4.0 noecho In my case I need such a patch to COMMAND.COM 4.0 because I would prefer to have a SINGLE VERSION of my BAT files residing on the various PCs they have to run on. These PCs are using various versions of DOS. If these PCs were using something like PC-NFS on a LAN, then the need is more than esthetic; they would all be using the SAME copy of the BAT files. Of lesser importance is this: who wants to visit all his BAT files to do a conversion? I admit that the time to do such a conversion is probably less than zapping COMMAND.COM; but then this neat new SHELLFIX package has just showed up on the net. If you have to support unskilled computer users, each with his/her own PC, the attractiveness of single versioning is enormous. A tool like SHELLFIX makes a "non-standard" COMMAND.COM much less of a problem than it might otherwise be.