[comp.sys.ibm.pc] How to suppress text written to CRT by a program?

pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Peter J. Dotzauer) (07/30/89)

Normally, when utilities write text to the screen, you can suppress it
with redirection to nul: <util> >NUL

However, this does not work for all utilities, supposedly because they
use standard error rather than standard output. It also does not work
for *.sys files that write text to the CRT. How can you suppress the
text in these cases?
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