Message-ID: <004d01c20624$6acbddd0$0102a8c0@acceleron>
From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1020527161435 DOT 10825B AT is>
Subject: Re: emacs under w2k
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:47:25 +1000
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> > The following two tests fail, they do not echo anything:-
> > command.com /c if exist \DJ204\djgpp.env @echo here1
> > command.com /c if exist "\DJ204\djgpp.env" @echo here2
>
> I assume \dj204\djgpp.env does exist, right?
Yes.

> Does it work if you remove the @ from "echo"?  (FWIW, I don't really
> understand why did you use @echo in the first place.)

The first line does work if I remove the @ from echo, but the line where the
check is in quotes still fails. Don't know why.

I am used to adding the @ from the MS-DOS days so that the command is silent
and only the text that I want to display is displayed.

Andrew