From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 22 07:54:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA07624 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 07:54:41 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA07618; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 07:54:38 -0800 Received: from tartufo.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AA06006; Wed, 22 Mar 95 07:14:47 -0800 Received: by tartufo.pcs.dec.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Wed, 22 Mar 95 16:13 MET Message-Id: Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 16:13 MET From: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com (Michael Elbel) To: jkh@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Yes, I'm sick and depraved. Newsgroups: pcs.freebsd.hackers References: <199503220216.SAA03697@time.cdrom.com> Reply-To: me@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In pcs.freebsd.hackers you write: >Would anyone object TOO loudly if I hacked echo to understand \c (or \c$ if >you're being picky) as a synonym for -n? >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.. Yes, do so, please. Then let's turn on bash's -e switch to echo by default and I'll be happy (I always forget to give it that damn switch ;-) Michael -- Michael Elbel, Digital-PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@FreeBSD.org Fermentation fault (coors dumped)