Echo(V1.3)              ARP User's Manual              Echo(V1.3)



     NAME
          Echo - Echo a string to the terminal.

     SYNOPSIS
          Echo [string] NOLINE/s FIRST/k LEN/k

     DESCRIPTION
          Echo displays its argument to the current output, this can
          be the printer, a file or the terminal. Echo is typically
          used in Batch files, but it can also be used (and useful) to
          send escape sequences to things like printers.

	  Note that with the added keywords, you now MUST use double
	  quotes to delimit a line to echo, unlike the V1.1 ARP Echo.

     OPTIONS
          NOLINE
               This suppresses the newline which Echo automatically
               adds at the end of its argument.

          FIRST
               This option takes a numeric argument, which indicates
               which character position to begin output at. Any
               character before FIRST will not be displayed. This is
               useful with LEN (see below).

          LEN  This option takes a numeric argument, which indicates
               how many characters to output.  If you also supply a
               FIRST argument (see above), character output will begin
               with that character, for LEN characters. If LEN is used
               without the FIRST keyword, then the final LEN
               characters will be displayed.

     EXAMPLES
          Echo "Hello World!" displays "Hello World" on the terminal.

          Echo >PRT: "\FHello World!"  advances the printer paper, and
          displays Hello World! on the printer. Note that you must
          have set your escape character to \ for this example to
          work.

          Echo First 2 "Hello World!" will display "ello World!".

          Echo Len 4 "Hello World!" will display "rld!".

          Echo First 7 Len 6 "Hello World!" will display "World!".

     SEE ALSO
          Set for a description of how to change the escape character.






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