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infidel+@pitt.edu (Todd J Derr) writes:

>In article <1992Aug18.213600.27969@cs.ubc.ca> yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil) writes:
>>
>>Don't know about useful, but interesting... Well, how about the self
>>printing batch program that I posted to alt.hackers some time ago:
>>
>>SELFPRNT.BAT:
>>	Bad command or file name
>>
>>And yet another teaser: The above batch file doesn't self print
>>on 4DOS! 

>well, it doesn't self-print with COMMAND.COM either...  when you "List"
>it:

>C:>type selfprnt.bat
>Bad command or file name
>Bad command or file name
>...

>and when you execute it:

>C:>selfprnt

>C:>Bad command or file name
>Bad command or file name

>C:>Bad command or file name
>Bad commmand or file name

I believe there is a typo in the above: Only one of the two pairs
of lines shows up.

>close...  but you are supposed to get *The Same* output if you "List" it
>or Execute it- and you don't.

Stricly speaking, the output is only one "Bad command or file name".
In fact, none of them are the output: one is the standard error
and the other is just an echo. But, otherwise if you wish to consider
the echo as output then I suppose you could always do

REM blah

Not mentioning the ultimate:

	CTTY NUL

or even the more destructive

	CTTY CLOCK$ 



>later,

>todd.

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