reeves@amd.AMD.COM (JR) (08/12/87)
After posting the previous arcticle about ECHOing a blank line using hex FF , I tried a few other things and realized that the EASIEST way is to simply type ECHO. (NOTE THE PERIOD DIRECTLY FOLLWING THE WORD ECHO) This will give a blank line but will NOT print the (.) If you want to print a period put a spcae after the word ECHO This method is much more straight forward than the last perversion I posted. J. Reeves
sarah@laticorp.UUCP (08/13/87)
In article <4324@amd.AMD.COM>, reeves@amd.AMD.COM (JR) writes: > After posting the previous arcticle about ECHOing a blank line > using hex FF , I tried a few other things and realized that the EASIEST > way is to simply type ECHO. (NOTE THE PERIOD DIRECTLY FOLLWING THE WORD > ECHO) This will give a blank line but will NOT print the (.) If you want to print a period put a spcae after the word ECHO > > This method is much more straight forward than the last perversion I posted. > > J. Reeves Under Sperry DOS 3.1, typing ECHO. will echo "ECHO is on" (or off). ECHO. does seem to work on every other DOS I've tried (MS, PC). The suggestion which I received via e-mail from several people was to echo either hex FF (per your original suggestion), or echo a delete character or decimal 255 (using ALT 127 for delete, ALT 255 for the other). That works on Sperry DOS also. The solution I've gone for is to echo a delete character. Can anyone think of a reason why that might be a bad idea? Many thanks to everyone who has responded--I was not always able to get mail back to the people who sent me mail. Sarah Groves Hobart