I read the original post much like Ben did, hence my responses.

Good catch on the recent posts.

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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I interpreted from:
>
> >From: Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan [mailto:[email protected]]
> >Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:17 PM
> >I'm trying to echo spaces on a line by itself"
>
> that the word "line" means an implicit line break at the end.  Your quote
> was
> an affirmation that the echo command should not output JUST the line break.
>
> Carl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 7:53 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Carl Houseman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > So, no?  No what?   Every echo outputs a line break.   Avoiding line
> breaks
> > was not part of the request.
>
>   I interpreted
>
> >>> It needs to actually be spaces, not a line break.
>
> as meaning it cannot contain a line break.
>
> -- Ben
>
>
>

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