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- rem BLANKLIN.COM
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- rem Matt Roberts, 3 Cedar St., Montpelier, Vt 05602-3006
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- rem With DOS 3.X, you can create a blank line in a batch file by typing ECHO.
- rem (ECHO with a period directly after it). That doesn't work with versions
- rem of DOS below 3.0; you have to use ECHO ., which puts annoying little dots
- rem on your blank lines. This utility makes a blank line without the dots.
-
- rem It requires approximately 64K to run.
-
- rem While the screen writes are more attractive, there is a problem in terms
- rem of speed; this takes a while to load, especially on slow machines, which
- rem will slow down your batch files.
-
- rem First, check for parameters, which tells the program how many blank lines
- rem to print.
-
- a$=command$
- b$=mid$(a$,2,79)
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- printlin:
- a=val(b$)
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- if a$=" " then
- a=0
- endif
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- for line=1 to a
- print
- next line
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- finish:
- end
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