From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 15 16:01:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00380 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:01:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pproxy01.gol.ad.jp (pproxy01.gol.ad.jp [203.216.1.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00367 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:00:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (tc-1-172.urawa.gol.ne.jp [203.216.60.172]) by pproxy01.gol.ad.jp (8.9.1/8.9.1/891-SMTP-P) with ESMTP id IAA00379 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:00:38 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <35FEF174.4E8DCD92@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:00:04 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'bug' in /bin/sh's builtin 'echo' Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com Make me sad. Make me mad. Make me feel alright? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message