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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BAT files and ECHO OFF
Message-ID: <1849@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 1 May 89 21:12:07 GMT
References: <161@infovax.UUCP> <5350@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <5350@hubcap.clemson.edu> rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry) writes:
>From article <161@infovax.UUCP>, by bl@infovax.UUCP (Bj|rn Larsson):

>     [stuff about needing DOS 3.3 patch to set echo default to off]

>     One the nice features of PC-DOS 3.3 (I'm not sure about MS-DOS 3.3
>though) is that Microsoft finally caught this pain in the ***.  They
>implemented a new form of the echo command (@echo) that prevents it from
>being displayed.

>     Try "@echo off" as the first line of your batch file.

It's more general than that; in DOS 3.3, using an '@' as the first
character of a batch file command prevents the command from being
echoed regardless of the command -- "@SET 87=Y", for example, simply
doesn't echo. And you reduce the number of commands in your batch file
through not having all the echo on/off commands.


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