From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!emrath
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Re:  small bug in 'vi' - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1926
Posted: Sat Apr 23 22:48:47 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 04:27:46 1983

#R:sri-arpa:-93800:uiucdcs:13700030:000:85
uiucdcs!emrath    Apr 23 18:52:00 1983

Try changing vi to make that "echo foo*" be "echo -n foo*"
and then see if it works.