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Date:      Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:37:35 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject:   Re: WordPerfect and Z-Mail for SCO - success!
Message-ID:  <9508161837.AA01509@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199508161626.SAA04920@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <9508161338.AA01035@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199508161626.SAA04920@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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<<On Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:26:44 +0200 (MET DST), J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> said:

>> 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.

You're right, I had the wrong standard.

To the contrary, XPG4 requires `\c' and disallows `-n'.  Yet Another
Stupid Mistake on the part of X/Open.  Whether we care to comply with
XPG4 is another question altogether.

-GAWollman

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