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Date:      Wed, 08 Aug 2001 08:04:43 -0700
From:      Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
To:        'Tony Landells' <ahl@austclear.com.au>, Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: How to Echo Newline in tcsh?
Message-ID:  <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A049@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
In-Reply-To: <200108080012.KAA06302@tungsten.austclear.com.au>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Landells [mailto:ahl@austclear.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:12 PM
> To: Drew Tomlinson
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: How to Echo Newline in tcsh?
>
>
> How tcsh interprets echo strings is determined by the "echo_style"
> variable.  According to the manual, the default is "both" which will
> permit "\n" to be a newline, but my default installation of
> FreeBSD 4.2
> has it set to "bsd" for root's shell, in which case "\n"
> means nothing.

Thank you for the informative explanation.  Where is the proper place to set
environment variables so they are there between logins?  And where should I
set it if I want it to be the default for all users and any new users I
might create?

Thanks,

Drew


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