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From: hom@houxm.UUCP (H.MORRIS)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.bugs
Subject: Re: more on echo command
Message-ID: <1194@houxm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 14:01:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 14:01:52 1985
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While on the topic of "echo", it is remarkably hard to have a background
process output just a bell character with no carriage return (to signal
that it is done, say, while I am in a vi session).  I had been using a
'C' routine for this purpose, and finally discovered that I could say:
	echo "^G\c"
only to find out it does not work with UCB 4.2.
	I use this in a package which is shipped to various machines
and would like to have one less thing requiring compilation.