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.STRING_FUNCS: ECHO Function
.ALIAS.......: ECHOFUNC
.DISCUSSION..:
e Produces only the strings specified using the /Q, /P, and /S
parameters. Justification, if specified using the /J parm, is applied
only to the string, if any, supplied on the /Q parm.

You can use /Fe for situations in which you want Fdate to produce output that doesn't include any sort of date. In these cases, Fdate functions just like the DOS "echo" command.

The /Fe function is especially useful in conjunction with the /J (justify) parm (see below).

One nifty feature of /Fe (although one that will be of interest only to extreme batch-file power users) is its ability, when used in conjunction with /V, to put a character into an environment variable that the SET command would not accept: characters such as an equal-sign "=" , the redirection symbol ">", and the pipe symbol "|".