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From: msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BAT files and ECHO OFF
Keywords: .BAT FIles, ECHO OFF, DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <2435@solo2.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 2 May 89 10:08:23 GMT
References: <161@infovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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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



   In DOS 3.30 (maybe others) you can use



       _
      / \
      |a/ echo off
      \

       ^
       |
   (not this one, but the real one)

as the first line. It won't be displayed.