From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 22:50:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069C816A401 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:50:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gs_stoller@juno.com) Received: from outbound-mail.nyc.untd.com (outbound-mail.nyc.untd.com [64.136.20.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B89943D45 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:50:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gs_stoller@juno.com) Received: from webmail06.nyc.untd.com (webmail06.nyc.untd.com [10.141.27.146]) by smtpout04.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABCD5A97A32KRDJ for (sender ); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:49:33 -0700 (PST) Received: (from gs_stoller@juno.com) by webmail06.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id LMSTR7CT; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:49:21 PDT Received: from [69.125.135.219] by webmail06.nyc.untd.com with HTTP: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:48:44 GMT X-Originating-IP: [69.125.135.219] Mime-Version: 1.0 From: "gs_stoller@juno.com" Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:48:44 GMT To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Webmail Version 4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <20060412.154921.26277.710543@webmail06.nyc.untd.com> X-ContentStamp: 8:4:645692108 X-UNTD-OriginStamp: /s5f1SIGSI3+WdnoYQ8yRMdj5FlmvkF06ACzq7UTfCY4R1DiN3/2/w== X-UNTD-Peer-Info: 10.141.27.146|webmail06.nyc.untd.com|webmail06.nyc.untd.com|gs_stoller@juno.com X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:20:08 +0000 Subject: Problems with FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:50:16 -0000 I tried out FreeBSD 6.0 (sorry, I copied just part or uname -a and I got something like "LINUX 2.4.2 FreeBSD 6.0 - Release #0: Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/LINUX") and was surprised to find that things in the echo command didn't work. When I typed = echo "a\tb" I got a\tb , no tab replacing the "\t" Same for "\n". When I tried to type echo "b" where stands for hitting the tab key, when I hit the first time, nothing happened, when I hit it immediately afterward, I got an ls -A listing. I did manage to get a tab into the string by typing something else there in place of tab and then editting the command with r (the replace function) to put a tab in it. When I hit similarly immediately after the command prompt I got a question asking if I wanted to see the 424 (or was it 242 ?) possibilities and the computer responded immediately after a 'y' or 'n' key was hit. How could this happen? The echo command (and builtin , I tried both [and I presume that echo by itself invokes the builtin ]) should be standard?