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ECHOB
Displays a Blank Line on the Screen
Jim Buyens
September 13, 1986
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.
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:
ECHO Hello!
ECHOB
ECHO How are you?
Files supplied with ECHOB are:
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