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From: maa@nbires.nbi.com (Mark Armbrust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: How to hide 'echo off' in batch files?
Message-ID: <406@nbires.nbi.com>
Date: 2 Jun 89 20:25:56 GMT
References: <9139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <377@npiatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: maa@nbires.UUCP (Mark Armbrust)
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In article <377@npiatl.UUCP> dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes:
>In article <9139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> haverlan@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to turn off echoing in a batch file without
>>showing the 'echo off?'
>
>Sure!
>
>echo off
>cls

A little cleaner, if you are using ANSI.SYS:

echo off
echo <esc>[A<esc>[K<esc>[2A

This moves the cursor up an erases the nasty "echo off" line, leaving
the cursor on the erased line.


Mark Armbrust
maa@nbires.nbi.com
maa@nbires.UUCP

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Mark Armbrust
maa@nbires.nbi.com
maa@nbires.UUCP