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From: tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: How to hide 'echo off' in batch files?
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Date: 5 Jun 89 06:59:36 GMT
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[ followups to comp.sys.ibm.pc; this doesn't have much to do with binaries ]

In article <122@sherpa.UUCP> rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius) writes:

>There was something in a recent PC Magazine about this.  If memory
>serves, the method used was to redirect all console output to NUL using
>the ctty command, then explicitly direct any output you want to appear
>on the screen to CON. eg. "echo Enter Y or N > CON".  Be sure to use
>ctty to redirect output back to CON before ending your batch file.

But this will still display, at the minimum, the ctty command.  Doesn't
that defeat the whole purpose?
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