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From: leif@ambush.dk (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BAT files and ECHO OFF
Summary: Using @ in DOS 3.3
Keywords: .BAT FIles, ECHO OFF, DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <971@ambush.dk>
Date: 3 May 89 11:20:38 GMT
References: <161@infovax.UUCP> <1802@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Organization: AmbraSoft, Holte, Denmark
Lines: 22

In article <1802@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, dalm@warwick.UUCP (D A L Michael) writes:
> 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
> Well, this is a case of READ THE MANUAL!
> 
> @echo off
> ...rest of stuff
> 
> Then you will never see the ECHO OFF appear on the screen.

Well that depends if you are using DOS 3.3 from third party (like
Olivetti), MicroSoft OR IBM! Some of them recognize the @ others don't!
Long live the free will (and stupidity) from computer industry!

  Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Roejelskaer 15, DK-2840 Holte, Denmark
 UUCP: leif@ambra.dk, phone: +45 42424 111, touch phone: +45 42422 817+313

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