Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!xanth!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: BAT files and ECHO OFF Message-ID: <13629@ncoast.ORG> Date: 7 May 89 19:11:26 GMT References: <161@infovax.UUCP> <1802@ubu.warwick.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 22 As quoted from <1802@ubu.warwick.UUCP> by dalm@warwick.UUCP (D A L Michael): +--------------- | In article <161@infovax.UUCP> bl@infovax.UUCP (Bj|rn Larsson) writes: | >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! +--------------- There IS a valid reason to want to patch the 3.3 executable. It's called COMPATIBILITY. What if I want to run the same .BAT file on my Toshiba T1000? (DOS 2.11 in ROM. Run the BAT file and watch it b*tch about the blasted @.) Kindly THINK before flaming. (G*d forbid that *anyone* should do so!) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser