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From: Joe Morris
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:39

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odonovan@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:

>Here's another nifty use for ALT-255:

>In batch files,

>    echo_

>where _ is ALT-255, will print a blank line on the screen.
>This is useful if you want to separate your output messages.
>And it works from DOS 2.11 and up!

Why not just code:

echo.

which writes a single blank line to the screen?  (Note the period after
the "o".)  This worked at least in 3.3; I'm not sure if it is valid for
any earlier releases.

Using ECHO. is documented for MS-DOS 5 on page 458 of the DOS manual.

Joe Morris / MITRE

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