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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: "Invalid null command"
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.043133.27903@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 04:31:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.005620.11434@ico.isc.com> <1991Apr2.212348.8565@nas.nasa.gov> <1991Apr2.235854.24295@Think.COM> <1991Apr4.021327.10922@nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Apr4.021327.10922@nas.nasa.gov> hahn@gigantor.nas.nasa.gov (Jonathan Hahn) writes:
>In article <1991Apr2.235854.24295@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>>In article <1991Apr2.212348.8565@nas.nasa.gov> hahn@gigantor.nas.nasa.gov (Jonathan Hahn) writes:
>>>	alias \> 'echo>'
>>Actually, it should be
>>	alias \> 'echo -n >'
>>Otherwise you'll write a newline to splot, rather than just truncating it.
>Well, no.  You're thinking of the Bourne shell echo.  We were talking about
>emulating the Bourne shell ">" command in the C shell.  The echo in the
>C shell doesn't behave as you describe.

Mr. Hahn is right.  Mr. Margolin, it seems you did a "man csh", instead of
trying it out to see what it does.  If the developers of csh don't RTFM,
why should you?

Attention world, if you RTFM, you get what you deserve.  :-S (sarcasm)
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Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.