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- 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
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- 1- Syntax 2- Notes 3- Examples of Use
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- 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.
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- 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
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- ECHO $text ...send <text> to printer
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- Any characters are automatically capitalized when echoed since the command
- input line editor capitalizes the command lines. If the first non-blank char
- of the text is a "$", then ECHO sends its output to the LST: device.
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- ECHO Notes:
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- 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:
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- a. ECHO hello, world
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- - sends text "HELLO, WORLD" to console
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- b. ECHO Assembling;m80 =$1;^E
- if input;echo Linking;l80 /P:100,$1,A:SYSLIB/S,$1/N,/E;fi
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- - a single multiple command line will print the informative messages
- "ASSEMBLING" and "LINKING" during the respective commands
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- c. ECHO ^Z
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- - clears CRT screen (on terminal where ^Z clears the screen)
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- d. ECHO $^L
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- - form feeds printer (assuming printer responds to form feed char)