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- Echo(V1.3) ARP User's Manual Echo(V1.3)
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- NAME
- Echo - Echo a string to the terminal.
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- SYNOPSIS
- Echo [string] NOLINE/s FIRST/k LEN/k
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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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- Note that with the added keywords, you now MUST use double
- quotes to delimit a line to echo, unlike the V1.1 ARP Echo.
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- OPTIONS
- NOLINE
- This suppresses the newline which Echo automatically
- adds at the end of its argument.
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- FIRST
- This option takes a numeric argument, which indicates
- which character position to begin output at. Any
- character before FIRST will not be displayed. This is
- useful with LEN (see below).
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- LEN This option takes a numeric argument, which indicates
- how many characters to output. If you also supply a
- FIRST argument (see above), character output will begin
- with that character, for LEN characters. If LEN is used
- without the FIRST keyword, then the final LEN
- characters will be displayed.
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- EXAMPLES
- 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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- Echo First 2 "Hello World!" will display "ello World!".
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- Echo Len 4 "Hello World!" will display "rld!".
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- Echo First 7 Len 6 "Hello World!" will display "World!".
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- SEE ALSO
- Set for a description of how to change the escape character.
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- Page 1 (printed 4/28/89)
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