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   R.Wieser to All   
   Re: Is there an opposite to '@' ?   
   30 Apr 21 18:47:04   
   
   From: address@not.available   
      
   Grant,   
      
   >> Yesterday I got caught out by a batchfile (which I wrote myself :-) )   
   >> changing the current directory - I thought I was still in the old one ...   
   >   
   > Oops   
      
   Yup.   Luckily nothing bad happened.  Just had to figure out why I could not   
   find my files.   
      
   > More specifically, '@echo off' is intended to not show the batch file   
   > /input/ while executing.  Read: hide the command to be executed, but not   
   > touch the command's output.   
      
   Yup.  But alas, I only realized my blunder /after/ having posted my question   
   ...   
      
   In short : the problem I thought I had doesn't exist.  It was just me having   
   some kind of brain-freeze or something. :-|   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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