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From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BAT files and ECHO OFF
Keywords: .BAT FIles, ECHO OFF, DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <481@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 5 May 89 17:15:35 GMT
References: <161@infovax.UUCP> <1802@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <971@ambush.dk>
Reply-To: ray@philmtl.UUCP (Raymond Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. -  St. Laurent  P.Q., Canada
Lines: 19

In article <971@ambush.dk> leif@ambush.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) writes:
 > [advice to use @ to inhibit echo ]
 > 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!

Only if the third party is pretending that a release is 3.3 when it is not!

Other than IBM, third party suppliers do not have the capability of modifying
the behaviour of DOS at this level.

Would anyone care to identify the supplier whose DOS 3.3 does not have this
feature?

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