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- Echo(REL2) ARP User's Manual Echo(REL2)
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- NAME
- Echo - Displays its argument(s) to the terminal.
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- SYNOPSIS
- Echo This String or Echo "This String"
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- DESCRIPTION
- Echo displays its argument to the current output, this can
- be the printer, a file or the terminal. Echo is typically
- used in Batch files, but it can also be used (and useful) to
- send escape sequences to things like printers.
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- ARP's Echo does not require quotes, and it is also the only
- ARP command that will recognize escapes in both quoted and
- unquoted strings.
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- EXAMPLE
- Echo "Hello World!" displays Hello World on the terminal
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- Echo >PRT: \FHello World! advances the printer paper, and
- displays Hello World! on the printer. Note that you must
- have set your escape character to \ for this example to
- work.
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- SEE ALSO
- Set for a description of how to change the escape character.
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- Page 1 (printed 2/22/88)
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