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- ECHOB
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- Displays a Blank Line on the Screen
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- Jim Buyens
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- September 13, 1986
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- This rather trivial program solves the problem of how to display a blank
- line on the PC screen using any version of DOS. This is a problem because
- getting the ECHO command to display a blank line requires different tricks
- under various DOS versions. ECHOB should work on any version of DOS yet
- released.
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- Install ECHOB.COM in the current directory or another one named on the PATH
- statement. Then, to emit a blank line, issue the ECHOB command. To get
- non-blank lines, use ECHO (as before). For example:
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- ECHO Hello!
- ECHOB
- ECHO How are you?
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- Files supplied with ECHOB are:
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- ECHOB.DOC - The file you are reading now
- ECHOB.COM - The ECHOB program itself
- ECHOB.DBG - The input stream to make the DOS DEBUG command create
- ECHOB.COM
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