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   Kerr-Mudd, John to R.Wieser   
   Re: Is there an opposite to '@' ?   
   30 Apr 21 20:52:18   
   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:47:04 +0200   
   "R.Wieser"  wrote:   
      
   > 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. :-|   
   >   
   Happens to us all as we get older ISTM!.   
      
      
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