From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 8 8: 5:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785EF37B410 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:05:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GHR00D018MDAB@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.215]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GHR0011I8M0FY@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 08 Aug 2001 08:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 08:04:43 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: How to Echo Newline in tcsh? In-reply-to: <200108080012.KAA06302@tungsten.austclear.com.au> To: 'Tony Landells' , Drew Tomlinson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A049@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message