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From: jeffery@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG (Jeff Sheese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: BAT files and ECHO OFF
Message-ID: <30.245CA524@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 1 May 89 18:16:33 GMT
Organization: JStek Enterprises - Frederick, MD
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In an article of <30 Apr 89 15:07:44 GMT>, bl@infovax.UUCP (Bj|rn Larsson) writes:

 >Dear everybody, long ago there circulated a number of binary patches
 >to COMMAND.COM (for DOS 2.x and 3.1) that set ECHO to default to OFF
 >when a .BAT file was executed. I like not to see the first statement
 >'ECHO OFF' echoed when a batch is run, so does anybody have this in-
 >formation for DOS 3.3 COMMAND.COM.

All PCDOS 3.3 batch file commands preceded with '@' will not be echoed to the 
screen.  Therefore if you have the command '@Echo OFF' in the first line
of the batch file, ECHO will be switched off and the command will not
be echoed to the screen.
--  
Jeff Sheese - via FidoNet node 1:109/116
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