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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: How to hide 'echo off' in batch files?
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Date: 2 Jun 89 19:03:19 GMT
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In article <9139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> haverlan@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY) writes:
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<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.
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<Does anyone know how to turn off echoing in a batch file without
<showing the 'echo off?'

If you have DOS 3.2, or later, (I think it was 3.2) all you need to do is
put a @ as the first character before the echo off (@echo off).  The @
suppresses output of that command line.  If you have earlier versions of
DOS, the common why was to bugger DOS so that the default was echo off.
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