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  2. From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Echo command in batch files
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.163626.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
  6. Date: 19 Nov 92 23:36:26 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov14.190918.9554@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Nov16.204439.17539@oracle.us.oracle.com> <tim.12.722026318@tim.src.utah.edu>
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  14. In article <tim.12.722026318@tim.src.utah.edu>, tim@tim.src.utah.edu (Tim Ma) writes:
  15. > To "suppress" the CR/LF in the DOS echo command, try:
  16. > 
  17. > echo hello>temp world >> temp
  18. > 
  19. > Output should be:
  20. > hello world
  21. > 
  22. > Seems to work with MSDOS 5.0.
  23.  
  24. With DR DOS 6.0 too.  The question is: What does this batch line do?
  25. --
  26. Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
  27. f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."
  28.  
  29. "[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
  30.     -- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
  31. "The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
  32.     -- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
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