Re: echo >> gives erroneous results

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From: Jerzy Tarasiuk
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 21:18

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>>>>> On Tue, 27 Oct 1992 05:44:01 GMT, cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz said:
c> In article <1992Oct23.202022.19083@dcatlas.dot.gov>, joet@dcatlas.dot.gov
c> (Joe Trott) writes:
> eric@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Eric Hansen) writes:
>>I have the following command in a batch file:
>>echo ccc >> c:\autoexec.bat
>>This *should* append the string "ccc" to the end of the autoexec.bat file
>>in root dir of my c drive.  Instead, it does nothing.  I've tested other

c> Someone else suggested that if the batch ended with (or without ?) a
c> Ctrl-Z (DOS EOF) then it wouldn't work - I just tried all sorts of
c> things (only MS-DOS 5.0) and couldn't make "echo ccc >> c:\autoexec.bat"
c> -NOT- work unless AUTOEXEC.BAT was write-protected.

Ctrl-Z does not cause AUTOEXEC.BAT to remain unchanged. But data
added after it is ignored by COMMAND.COM when it reads AUTOEXEC.BAT,
and (probably) by editor used to see if AUTOEXEC.BAT was changed.

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Subject: Re: echo >> gives erroneous results
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