[arachne] Re: [a4dos-list] Re: batchfiles

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At 12/30/99, you wrote:
>arachne4dos @coollist.com General List ----------------
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>On ?, Greg Mayman wrote:
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>> arachne4dos @coollist.com General List ----------------
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>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:41:48 +1000, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:
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>>> arachne4dos @coollist.com General List ----------------
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>>> OK...
>>> How about the "periods" (.) after the command "echo"?
>
>> With MS-DOS the line "echo." will print a blank line.
>
>>> I would almost lay odds that your "roura.log" will only
>>> have one character...the period.  Try removing the echo
>>> command and the period.  Echo only types to screen
>
>> No it doesn't. If he is talking about MS-DOS's command.com then the
>> output can be redirected to afile with the ">" symbol.
>
>> So "echo. >output.fil" will overwrite whatever is in output.fil and
>> replace it with  the CR-LF characters.
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>Here are the results with OpenDos v7.01
>
>At the command prompt..........
>
>echo echo.>\echo.txt
>echo.>>\echo.txt
>echo echo..>>\echo.txt
>echo..>>\echo.txt
>
>--- \echo.txt ---
>echo.
>
>echo..
>..
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Ahh...I forgot about the "echo" being included in the resulting
output file, as well as the periods.  Point is, if there is no roura.bat,
you only get your command "echo." as the file.

Wiz  <{;-)
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