From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 16 11:22:17 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA19606 for current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:22:17 -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 LAA19568 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:22:06 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25542; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 20:22:00 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA25690 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 20:22:00 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA04920 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:26:45 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508161626.SAA04920@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 18:26:44 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: <9508161338.AA01035@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Aug 16, 95 09:38:38 am 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: 935 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)