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In article <641.6628T629T99@ibm.net> geohei@ibm.net (Georges Heinesch) writes:
>
>But !
>
>Why can't the "Echo" command print a "=" if not between quotes?
>
>Try : 1. Echo "w=2"
>      2. Echo w=2

Simple: When entered without quotes, the equals sign has a special
meaning in AmigaDOS command lines. You can always link the name
and the value of an argument by this sign. It's only necessary in
cases where else an ambiguity would happen, so hardly anybody uses
it in normal life. One example from my old scripts is from before
the times with the backtick feature. Without this, you had to write
really awkward lines like
EVAL <ENV:Schleife{$$} >NIL: TO=T:Qwe{$$} VALUE2=1 OP=- ?
just to decrease the value of Schleife by 1.

So in the above case the sign is interpreted by AmigaDOS and thus
not displayed as part of the result.

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