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Article #25937Re: Echo Off! Dammit!
From: Ed Nather
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1988 17:08
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1988 17:08
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In article <39500009@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk>, awylie@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk writes:
>
> But who the hell cares if ECHO OFF gets echoed ??????
I do.
I've put together a Unix-like system for MS-DOS that makes use of batch
files as command names, and a lot of people use it. I want all the commands
to look the same to the user, whether they are realized in asm code, in C,
or as batch files. Ohterwise novice users get confused.
> This is just another stupid mountain-out-of-molehill posting so
> typical of this newsgroup.
>
I don't agree, but I think your posting meets the criterion of uselessness.
And transatlantic, too!
--
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!im4u!ut-sally!nather From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Echo Off! Dammit! Message-ID: <10931@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: 27 Mar 88 17:08:59 GMT References: <2110@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <39500009@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 23