A line that holds almost as much
sentimental value to
DOS BAT coders as
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
does to perl hackers or
#include <stdio.h>
to C coders in days when GUI meant curses.
Not that I was there. I'm just making this up.
Anyhow, you really shouldn't defame @echo off, BAT was beautiful first programming language to learn and @echo off has almost religious value to people like me. Or had. 'twas like mantra, we didn't even know what the '@' was there for, nobody told us. It just was there.
tftv256: you are correct, sir. I don't know what I'd been eating.