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Re: preventing case translation

#175
From: Scott Anderson
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1985 04:02
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>> I would like to be able to call Eunice programs from DCL.  The problem
>> is that I want the arguments untouched.  I get them all lowercased.
>> Even when I quote them, they are lowercased.  Does any one know how to
>> prevent this?
>> 
>> $ echo :== $unix:[usr.bin]echo echo    ! the 2nd echo is for execl argv[0]
>
>Try:
>
>$ echo ^Foo		(same as  $ ECHO ^FOO    ! of course)
>

Yes, this works for echo on our system, but why can't I get multi-column
output with 

$ ls -^C

?

					Scott Anderson
					ihnp4!oddjob
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From: sra@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Scott Anderson)
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Subject: Re: preventing case translation
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 23:02:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  6 23:02:58 1985
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