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                                   ECHO.COM                                   

             Size (recs) CRC   Version    Author/Latest Issue      Disk
ECHO11.COM     1k (5)    5A71  1.1        Cameron Cotrill 9/87     Z3COM3
ECHO11.CIM     1k (5)    D90B  1.1        Cameron Cotrill 9/87     Z3COM3

  1- Syntax  2- Notes  3- Examples of Use                                     


   ECHO  allows  text entered at the command line to be typed  to  the  screen 
without  the  operating system acting on it.   This is useful  for  displaying 
messages from aliases and between commands of a multiple command line.

   ECHO  also provides a convenient way of sending escape sequences to the CRT 
or printer.  ECHO uses direct BIOS calls without any character translation, so 
sequences  for programming intelligent devices can be issued by  running  ECHO 
and typing  in those sequences.  
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   Syntax:  ECHO text         ...send <text> to console

            ECHO $text        ...send <text> to printer 


   Any characters  are automatically capitalized when echoed since the command 
input line editor capitalizes  the command lines.  If the first non-blank char
of the text is a "$",  then ECHO sends its output to the LST: device.
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ECHO Notes:

   a. Version 1.1  is  the  result  of  applying  code  from RCPECHO in z33 to
      ECHO10, resulting in a type 3 transient echo that knows case.
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Examples of Use:

   a. ECHO hello, world

      - sends text "HELLO, WORLD" to console 

   b. ECHO Assembling;m80 =$1;^E
              if input;echo Linking;l80 /P:100,$1,A:SYSLIB/S,$1/N,/E;fi

      - a single multiple command line will print the informative messages 
        "ASSEMBLING" and "LINKING" during the respective commands

   c. ECHO ^Z

      - clears CRT screen (on terminal where ^Z clears the screen)

   d. ECHO $^L

      - form feeds printer (assuming printer responds to form feed char)
