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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: "Invalid null command"
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References: <1991Apr2.005620.11434@ico.isc.com> <1991Apr2.212348.8565@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 91 23:58:54 GMT

In article <1991Apr2.212348.8565@nas.nasa.gov> hahn@gigantor.nas.nasa.gov (Jonathan Hahn) writes:
>	alias \> 'echo>'
>
>This allows
>
>	>splot
>
>to behave as it does in the Bourne shell, and doesn't require a fork because
>"echo" is a csh built-in.

Actually, it should be

	alias \> 'echo -n >'

Otherwise you'll write a newline to splot, rather than just truncating it.
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