From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 15 21:21:52 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA05630 for current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 21:21:52 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA05622 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 21:21:45 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01589; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 06:21:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA19255 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 06:21:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA00952 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:46:27 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508152246.AAA00952@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: WordPerfect and Z-Mail for SCO - success! To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:46:26 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: <6102.808522422@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 15, 95 02:33:42 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 686 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > /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? :-) Last time we've been discussing it there were enough purists who afraid that they will have to echo strings containing bunches of backslashes every day, so they might be beaten by any special escape sequence handling... (I sort-of agree, echo is echo and nothing else, or, to quote Rob Pike: ``Cat came back from Berkeley waving flags.'' :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)