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ECHOS and ECHOSERR - Display a message without CR/LF

 
 Purpose:    Display a message without a trailing carriage return and line 
             feed. 
             
 Format:     ECHOS message 
             ECHOSERR message 
 
 See also:  ECHO, SCREEN, SCRPUT, TEXT, and VSCRPUT. 
 Usage 
 ECHOS is useful for text output when you don't want to add a carriage 
 return / linefeed pair at the end of the line.  For example, you can use 
 ECHOS when you need to redirect control sequences to your printer; this 
 example sends the sequence Esc P to the printer on LPT1: 

 
         [c:\] echos ^eP > lpt1:
 
 
 You cannot use the command separator character [&] or the redirection 
 symbols [| > <] in an ECHOS message, unless you enclose them in quotes 
 (see Argument Quoting) or precede them with the escape character. 
 ECHOS does not translate or modify the message text.  For example, 
 carriage return characters are not translated to CR/LF pairs.  ECHOS 
 sends only the characters you enter (after escape character and back 
 quote processing).  The only character you cannot put into an ECHOS 
 message is the NUL character (ASCII 0). 
 ECHOSERR acts like ECHOS but sends its output to the standard error 
 device (usually the screen) instead of the standard output device.  If 
 the standard output of a batch file is redirected to a file or another 
 device with >, ECHOSERR will still generate a screen message.  See 
 Redirection and Piping for more information about the standard output and 
 standard error devices and redirection. 

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