Stricly speaking, you cant. At least not in any direct way.
Since "echo" is an internal shell command (command.com or cmd.com for 2000++) they need to be active for it to function.
Doing a Print from blitzmax does exactly the same thing with a lot less overhead though.
If what you realy want is to run batch scripts from your program, you could start a new shell from your own program:
Since "echo" is an internal shell command (command.com or cmd.com for 2000++) they need to be active for it to function.
Doing a Print from blitzmax does exactly the same thing with a lot less overhead though.
If what you realy want is to run batch scripts from your program, you could start a new shell from your own program:
system_("cmd /c ~qecho hello world!~q")