Hi tom, >> Once you have debugged ALL your batch files you can place `CTTY >> NUL' before the command(s) and `CTTY CON' after to avoid output to screen. > > > excellent idea. > > now you have exchanged the annoying > > echo off > > for the much better > > CTTY NUL
Indeed. > in addition, neither I nor you know if 'CTTY NUL' works on MSDOS 3.0 The original requirement was MSDOS <3.30. I tested with MSDOS 3.21 and it worked. Test with MSDOS 3.0 was okay too. But as you already mentioned above, it won't help to prevent display of the first line of a batch file. Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user