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- From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
- Subject: Re: alt 255
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:39:46 GMT
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- odonovan@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
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- >Here's another nifty use for ALT-255:
-
- >In batch files,
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- > echo_
-
- >where _ is ALT-255, will print a blank line on the screen.
- >This is useful if you want to separate your output messages.
- >And it works from DOS 2.11 and up!
-
- Why not just code:
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- echo.
-
- which writes a single blank line to the screen? (Note the period after
- the "o".) This worked at least in 3.3; I'm not sure if it is valid for
- any earlier releases.
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- Using ECHO. is documented for MS-DOS 5 on page 458 of the DOS manual.
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- Joe Morris / MITRE
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