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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Possible bug in SunOS System V echo?
Message-ID: <12561@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Apr 90 19:08:24 GMT
References: <4852@helios.TAMU.EDU> <12545@smoke.BRL.MIL> <35818@cci632.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <35818@cci632.UUCP> tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) writes:
>I have a better idea - why not just build an echo that understands all the
>Berkeley and System V stuff?

Because the behaviors are incompatible!  How should
	echo 'foo\n'
work?  You get different answers from BSD and SysV variants of "echo".