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Article #25789Re: Echo Off! Dammit!
From: Rodrigo Murillo
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 15:34
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 15:34
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In article <2110@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes:
>[examples of how impossible it is to avoid the ECHO OFF message from
> a batch file...]
>wholesale. To pursue this further, echo off >nul as the first line of
>the batch file also will not work. DOS really wanted to screw you over
>on this little flaw, and I think they succeeded.
I saw a patch posted a long time ago in PC Magazine that would patch
command.com so that the default was ECHO OFF. Does anybody out there have that
patch, or maybe someone would like to figure it out. I used it on a system
once it it was great not to have to write batch files that always started
with 'ECHO OFF;CLS'.
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Rodrigo Murillo, University of Colorado - Boulder (303) 761-0410
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!sunybcs!boulder!murillo From: murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Echo Off! Dammit! Message-ID: <4965@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Date: 21 Mar 88 15:34:05 GMT References: <2110@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) Distribution: na Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 17 Keywords: no hope