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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect and Z-Mail for SCO - success!
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:17:35 +0600 (GMT+0600)
Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
In-Reply-To: <6102.808522422@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 15, 95 02:33:42 pm
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> > > 
> > > I still think that we should make our default echo do the right thing
> > > with '\c' automatically since I don't see that it loses us anything
> > > and it makes SCO shell script output look a lot nicer, but that's
> > > really a small and somewhat religious nit..
> > 
> > /usr/sysv/bin/echo? :-)
> 
> I thought about that, but wouldn't making the default one just
> grok \c be a bit easier?  Or does POSIX disallow that in an echo? :-)

BTW, may be our echo should grok \n too ?

		Serge Babkin

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