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Subject: Re: Yes, I'm sick and depraved.
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> 
> Would anyone object TOO loudly if I hacked echo to understand \c (or \c$ if
> you're being picky) as a synonym for -n?

No...

> This would help some of the SCO scripts we'll be dragging over with ibcs2
> compat to look a lot nicer, and I can see any real downside..
                                       ^
You mean not right :-)                 |


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Soren Schmidt  (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@login.dknet.dk)  FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time
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