Re: Problems with echo. (echo period)

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Aaron Shatters <address@hidden>:

> 2 - using "echo. 2>&1" which tricks make into thinking this should be 
> handled by the shell?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but ``echo.'' isn't a valid command.

<snippet>
C:\>dir echo*
Volume in drive C is QWEST
Volume Serial Number is 6077-E76C

Directory of C:\

File Not Found

C:\>echo. > echo.
'echo.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>dir echo*
Volume in drive C is QWEST
Volume Serial Number is 6077-E76C

Directory of C:\

04/24/2007  03:34 PM                 0 echo
              1 File(s)              0 bytes
              0 Dir(s)   4,656,234,496 bytes free

C:\>
</snippet>

Earnie