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From: dalm@warwick.UUCP (D A L Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BAT files and ECHO OFF
Keywords: .BAT FIles, ECHO OFF, DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <1802@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 00:33:53 GMT
References: <161@infovax.UUCP>
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Reply-To: dalm@emerald.UUCP (David Michael)
Organization: Computer Science, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
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In article <161@infovax.UUCP> 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. (I guess I could browse around a
>little in the executeable with some debugger, assuming that only the
>location of the code has changed, not the code itself {at least not
>drastically}. Still, if anybody already knows...)

Well, this is a case of READ THE MANUAL!

In DOS 3.3 there is a facility for batch files to NOT echo a command to
screen. It is by starting the line with an @ sign. So if you start your
autoexec.bat file and any other .bat files you have with:

@echo off
...rest of stuff

Then you will never see the ECHO OFF appear on the screen.
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