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Article #25729Re: Joy of MSDOS
From: Fai Lau
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1988 01:07
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1988 01:07
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In article <3aee6925.44e6@apollo.uucp> nelson_p@apollo.uucp writes:
>
> Is there any way to create batch files that don't echo
> their contents to the screen? If I precede the other
> commands in the .BAT file with 'ECHO OFF' then the @#&%*!
> 'ECHO OFF' gets echoed!
>
Hey, anyone who knows the answer to this gives me a response too,
will ya? Thanx
> Why does the PATH command only apply to some kinds of files
> and not others? If you're going to have a 'where to look'
> feature for the computer why limit the types of files it
> applies to?
Hummmm, Dos 3.20 has been good to me in that it does look
through the whold path for a file to be executed. One thing though,
when an executable looks for a "slave" file (like an overlay),
it doesn't even know that the path exists!!!
Fai Lau
SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!sunybcs!ugfailau From: ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Joy of MSDOS Message-ID: <9429@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: 19 Mar 88 01:07:42 GMT References: <3aee6925.44e6@apollo.uucp> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Reply-To: ugfailau@sunybcs.UUCP (Fai Lau) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 23