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From: housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: A fix for echo(1)
Message-ID: <15115@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 5 Sep 89 00:48:05 GMT
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	The /bin/echo program has had this problem since version 1.1,
and I have seen postings complaining about it, but nobody has ever (to
my knowledge) actually posted a fix.

	The program filters out '"' (double quote marks) from its output,
which is quite unnecessary. The following patch is relative to the
1.1 (and every other current) version of Minix.

-Peter S. Housel-	housel@ecn.purdue.edu		...!pur-ee!housel

*** echo.c	Sat Sep  2 17:40:08 1989
--- /usr/src/commands/echo.c	Wed Aug 16 09:31:26 1989
***************
*** 36,41 ****
  
    if (count == SIZE) {write(1, buf, count); count = 0;}
    while ( (c = *s++) != 0) {
! 	if (count < SIZE && c != '"') buf[count++] = c;
!   }
! }
--- 36,41 ----
  
    if (count == SIZE) {write(1, buf, count); count = 0;}
    while ( (c = *s++) != 0) {
! 	if (count < SIZE) buf[count++] = c;
!   }
! }