Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bsu-cs!mdlawler
From: mdlawler@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Mike Lawler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to hide 'echo off' in batch files?
Summary: This only works for DOS 3.3.
Message-ID: <7549@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 89 12:03:55 GMT
References: <9139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1168@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, IN, USA
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In article <1168@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU>, cs178wca@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Don Woodward) writes:
> In article <9139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> haverlan@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY) writes:
> >
> >I put the command 'echo off' at the top of most of my batch files to
> >hide the following commands.  However, 'echo off' is still displayed.
> >
> >Does anyone know how to turn off echoing in a batch file without
> >showing the 'echo off?'
> 
> Sure just change 'echo off' to '@echo off'.  
> I think this only works for DOS 3.0 and above.
> 
It only works for DOS 3.3 and above.
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