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From: spectre@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Robert Sillett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: How to hide 'echo off' in batch files?
Message-ID: <18268@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 89 17:09:01 GMT
References: <9139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <3249@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: spectre@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Robert Sillett)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh
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In article <3249@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
|in article <9139@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, haverlan@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY) says:
|
|---->   If you are using DOS 3.x, use @echo off. The @ sign will supress
|the "echo off" message....
|

This only works for DOS 3.30 and above.  You have to patch COMMAND.COM on
3.20 and earlier.

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