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Many users have noted that DOS's ECHO utility doesn't allow
you to echo certain characters, such as the redirection
symbols > and <, without enclosing them in double quotes
[see PC World, October 1991]. I have written a simple
utility, which I call ECHO!, that takes a string enclosed
between any two identical delimiter characters and echoes it
without the delimiters. The command ECHO! "Press <F10>", for
instance, echoes the string between the double quotes
without echoing the quotes. Note that there must be exactly
one space between the ECHO! command and the first quotation
mark.
David Nye
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Editor's Note: We printed ECHO!.COM as a DEBUG script in the
magazine, but it's available in binary form in the P5UTL
directory of your PowerBase *.* Volume 5 diskette.
Unlike the DOS ECHO command, ECHO! doesn't append a carriage
return, a linefeed, or a Control Z character at the end of
its output. This makes it extremely useful in situations
where these characters aren't wanted; for instance, if you
want to create a file to which you can append text without
starting a new line.
Title: An Excellent ECHO
Category: UTL
Issue Date: May, 1992
Editor: Brett Glass
Supplementary Files: P5UTL\ECHO!.COM
Filename: P5UTL004.TIP