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From: cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: clock and echo problems
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.234705.4226@cjbsys.bdb.com>
Date: 1 Jan 91 23:47:05 GMT
References: <1990Dec31.012532.17992@sceard.Sceard.COM>
Organization: BDB Systems
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In article <1990Dec31.012532.17992@sceard.Sceard.COM> mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
>This is probably just a case of RTFM, but here goes:
>
>Compaq Deskpro 386, Xenix 2.3.2, and the system clock loses an hour or
>two a day. CMOS clock is ok. This seems like it probably shouldn't happen :-)
>
>Anybody notice that under csh,
> % echo "--"
>works, but under /bin/sh,
> $ echo "--"
>doesn't work?
>Any good reason for such behavior from /bin/echo ?
>-- 
>Mike Murphy  mrm@Sceard.COM  ucsd!sceard!mrm  +1 619 598 5874

Yes.  in csh there is a built-in echo which gives the first result and since sh
doesn't have a bulit-in /bin/echo takes over.  (I went crazy on our Ultrix
system til I figured this out.)     

Oops, I just noticed that sh has a bulit-in echo also but it seems to work just
like /bin/echo

anyhow that is the difference.

Cliff