tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko) (11/18/87)
Could someone please send me the patch for command.com to permanently turn echo off in v3.3? (Why don't they just make this the default?) Thanks, Tad ---- ..!ihnp4!killer!tad
egray@fthood.UUCP (11/22/87)
I can't help but responed to this one... :-) Page 7-39 in the manual says: To prevent a batch file line form being displayed you can palce a @ before the command. Oh... you mean you don't have a manual?
hundt@wind.UUCP (11/23/87)
>I can't help but responed to this one... :-) > >Page 7-39 in the manual says: > To prevent a batch file line form being displayed > you can palce a @ before the command. > >Oh... you mean you don't have a manual? Wise guy. This is new in DOS 3.3! /-^-\ Thomas M. Hundt / BELLCORE Morristown NJ / hundt@bellcore.bellcore.com | | {seismo|ihnp4|ucbvax|decvax|ulysses|allegra|clyde}!bellcore!hundt /--_--\
bobmon@iucs.UUCP (RAMontante [condition that I not be identified]) (11/24/87)
> >I can't help but responed to this one... :-) > >Page 7-39 in the manual says: > > To prevent a batch file line form being displayed > you can palce a @ before the command. > >Oh... you mean you don't have a manual? And I can't help but respond... 8-) Chapter 7 is only 20 pages long, and it's talking about directory structure, nothing about batch files. Oh... you mean your manual isn't for Zenith's MS-DOS 3.1? Seriously... I think we all forget occasionally that this group is read by people more experienced AND LESS experienced than us, and that some of those who most need help are least prepared to realize how much variation there is in "DOS", even when it appears to be the same version number (viz., PC-DOS 3.1 vs. Zenith MS-DOS 3.1 vs TI MS-DOS 3.1 -- the biggest thing they have in common is the almost-CP/M file-naming convention we all inherited from PC-DOS 1.0 :-). Most DOS documentation is not written to be easy reading for inexperienced/new users, so they may not have found that particular item among their zero-to-four-or-more manuals; and maybe it's just not there, in that version. (None of the various "echo-off" patches work for me, including this one (yes, I tried it, even though I know it came out AFTER v3.1, what the heck...no, it doesn't work)). Please, people, when you talk about particular feature of DOS, especially features that have escaped someone's attention, indicate what flavor of DOS you're talking about. Be kind to the ignorant -- we were (are?) in that condition too. Bob Montante
agollum@engr.uky.edu (David Herron aka Admiral Gollum) (11/25/87)
>>I can't help but responed to this one... :-) >> >>Page 7-39 in the manual says: >> >> To prevent a batch file line form being displayed >> you can palce a @ before the command. >> >>Oh... you mean you don't have a manual? > >And I can't help but respond... 8-) > >Chapter 7 is only 20 pages long, and it's talking about directory structure, >nothing about batch files. > >Oh... you mean your manual isn't for Zenith's MS-DOS 3.1? > [stuff about how some users are more advanced than others and that manuals change with different manufacturers] I should add that the original poster was asking about a patch to change the *default*, which is not really answered by this flame. I assumed he was looking for a way to avoid starting every batch file with @ECHO OFF. I know he doesn't need this grief over a legitimate question. Kenneth Herron stuff for inews <grumble> <grumble>