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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: echo
Keywords: TUB
Message-ID: <25909@abbott.mips.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 89 00:46:56 GMT
References: <9791@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <9791@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
>
>the echo command on UIMPS 4.0 seems to return an exit status of 255
>if it echoes more than 256 characters (which it does so successfully).
>i thought we fixed this sort of thing in V7.

You probably did.  In the BSD/SysV merge, we accidentally omitted an
"exit(0)".  It's fixed in 5.0.

Also, in the future, please email bugs to "hotline@mips.com".
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE      MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.      phone: +1 408 720-2939
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