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Date:      Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:00:04 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'bug' in /bin/sh's builtin 'echo'
Message-ID:  <35FEF174.4E8DCD92@newsguy.com>

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David E. Cross wrote:
>
> I have tested sh's echo on the following platforms:
> AIX (4.2)
> Solaris 2.5
> IRIX 6.x
>
> All of them have: "echo 'foo\c'" display without a newline.  Seeing > that
> our current /bin/echo already does that, I strongly think that we > should
 
Aren't they all SysV platforms? Wouldn't this be dictating BSD
established behavior by SysV standards? What do the other BSD
platforms use? What the BSD have been using all these years?

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Daniel C. Sobral				(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com

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