🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <39500009@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> awylie@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk writes:
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>But who the hell cares if ECHO OFF gets echoed ??????

Those of us who are trying to encapsulate and hide the particularly ugly
details of MS-DOS from naive users who think that "C>" is arcane enough,
without seeing the kludge/magic of "batch" (hmmph) files.  Those of us who
care about a reasonably clean user interface, i.e. one without extraneous
crap [no comments about the oxymoronicism of "MS-DOS" and "clean user
interface"].  Those of us who are driven bonkers by the continued presence
of an onerous "feature" that should never have survived beta test, much
less lived past version 1.1.

>This is just another stupid mountain-out-of-molehill posting so
>typical of this newsgroup.

Unfortunately, this is one of those questions that continually pops up, in
various guises, on just about every newsgroup.  It'd be nice if everybody
would recognize these for what they are, wait for one person to gently post
a short answer, and move on, but that isn't going to happen.  Getting your
dander up won't do much -- I've seen very few meta-flames that did much
more than compensate for the flamer's bad day at work (and I guess this
could be considered a (hopefully mild) meta-meta-flame :-)

>Andrew Wylie, University of London Computer Centre,



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