Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:48:44 GMT From: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <20060412.154921.26277.710543@webmail06.nyc.untd.com>
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I tried out FreeBSD 6.0 (sorry, I copied just part or uname -a and I got something like "LINUX 2.4.2 FreeBSD 6.0 - Release #0: Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/LINUX") and was surprised to find that things in the echo command didn't work. When I typed = echo "a\tb" I got a\tb , no tab replacing the "\t" Same for "\n". When I tried to type echo "<tab>b" where <tab> stands for hitting the tab key, when I hit <tab> the first time, nothing happened, when I hit it immediately afterward, I got an ls -A listing. I did manage to get a tab into the string by typing something else there in place of tab and then editting the command with r (the replace function) to put a tab in it. When I hit <tab> similarly immediately after the command prompt I got a question asking if I wanted to see the 424 (or was it 242 ?) possibilities and the computer responded immediately after a 'y' or 'n' key was hit. How could this happen? The echo command (and builtin , I tried both [and I presume that echo by itself invokes the builtin ]) should be standard?
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