Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!stephen
From: stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BAT files and ECHO OFF
Summary: @ECHO OFF
Keywords: .BAT FIles, ECHO OFF, DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <1989May11.200622.8771@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 12 May 89 00:06:21 GMT
References: <161@infovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 15


   Not outputting ECHO OFF messages is a piece of cake in DOS 3.3, as
the clowns at Microsoft finally got around to eliminating the pain-in-the-
ass requirement that your ECHO OFF would always get printed.  In 3.3, you
put @ECHO OFF instead of ECHO OFF and it won't print it.  No patches needed
to COMMAND.COM or anything!  It's too bad Microsoft didn't improve their
batch files until 3.3 with @ECHO OFF and the CALL command ... you would
think that somebody within Microsoft would have suggested such features
when DOS was still young.  Or maybe that means that they don't use their
own O/S and are unaware of its oversights :-)
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! Stephen M. Dunn              stephen@ziebmef.UUCP ! DISCLAIMER:  Who'd ever !
! Take off to the Great White North eh, ya hosehead ! claim such dumb ideas?  !
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