Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:26:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: WordPerfect and Z-Mail for SCO - success! Message-ID: <199508161626.SAA04920@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9508161338.AA01035@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Aug 16, 95 09:38:38 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
> > 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? :-)
>
> To the contrary, POSIX requires `\c' and disallows `-n'. Yet Another
> Stupid Mistake on the part of P1003.2.
Neither:
4.19.4 Operands
The following operands shall be supported by the implementation:
string A string to be written to standard output. If the first
operand is "-n" or if any of the operands contain a
backslash (\) character, the results are implementation
defined.
They deprecate the usage of echo(1) in favor of the more portable
printf(1). However, our printf(1) man page does at least not list the
P-thing in its HISTORY section.
--
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. ;-)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199508161626.SAA04920>