SAMPLE command		      | Comments about the output

  ECHO				This command displays the current setting of
				ECHO, either ON or OFF.

  ECHO OFF			This command turns ECHO off. Subsequent 
				commands executed in the BATCH file or entered
				directly from the keyboard will not be shown
				on the screen until an ECHO ON command is
				executed or the BATCH file terminates.

  ECHO ON			This command turns ECHO on.

  ECHO message			This command will display message on the
				screen, whether echo is on or off.

  ECHO message > PRN		This command will write message to the printer
				rather than displaying it on the screen.
 
  :loop				This loop in a BATCH file will slowly fill
   ECHO >> filler		up your disk with a string of "ECHO is off"
   GOTO loop			messages. 

  ECHO.				On many versions of DOS, this command will
				display a blank line on the screen. ECHO: also
				usually works.

  @ECHO OFF			In DOS 3.3 and later, this command will turn
				ECHO off, without printing this command. This
				is useful if you want to have a "silent" batch
				file that does not echo ANY of the commands in
				it, including the one which turns ECHO off.

  ECHO OFF			Placing these two commands at the beginning of
  ECHO $e[80D$e[A$e[K$e[A	a batch file will briefly flicker the words
				ECHO OFF on screen, but otherwise produce a
				"silent" batch file. The use of "$e[" in the
				second ECHO command is explained in the PROMPT
				ESCAPE_SEQUENCES topic. A line DEVICE=ANSI.SYS
				in the CONFIG.SYS file is also required.
