Well, I guess I’ll put in two cents worth of a non-standard solution… If you don’t want to have the “echo off” on the screen and don’t want to clear the screen either, you can do it using two utilities in V8Power tools (available and provided with FreeDOS).
It would look something this… —— TEST.BAT —— echo off vgotoxy up vecho /n /e echo hi —— END —— So what happens is this: echo off # displays the command echo off vgotoxy up # moves the cursor back up one line vecho /n /e # tells vecho not to perform a CRLF when finished and tells it to clear everything from the cursor to the end of the line. echo hi # prints hi where “echo off” originally was located. While technically, echo off is printed then erased. It happens very quickly. Also, if you redirect output to a file, you will see the “echo off” that appears first. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
