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Article #103Re: /bin/echo on daisy does not understand '-n'.
From: Jim Barby
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 23:48
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 23:48
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In article <503@maytag.waterloo.edu>, eclam@maytag.waterloo.edu writes:
> From: "Edmund C. Lam" <eclam>
>
> Should we install our own????
Why not use /bsd43/bin/echo which knows about "-n". This may require
hostname switching in shell scripts but it keeps things as close to the
vendor stuff as reasonable.
--
Jim Barby (U of Waterloo VLSI Group, Waterloo Ont.)
jabarby@vlsi.waterloo.{cdn,edu,bitnet}
jabarby@vlsi.UWaterloo.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!jabarby From: jabarby@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Jim Barby) Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs Subject: Re: /bin/echo on daisy does not understand '-n'. Message-ID: <31@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Date: 19 Sep 89 23:48:04 GMT References: <503@maytag.waterloo.edu> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12