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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
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Subject: Re: more on echo command
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Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 02:47:32 EST
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>                           ... and finally discovered that I could say:
> 	echo "^G\c"
> only to find out it does not work with UCB 4.2.

Sure enuf.  Years ago, in csh's infancy, some nameless author decided
that the syntax

	echo -n ...

was preferable.  Since echo was a builtin to csh, it was possible for
a time (under PDP-11 V7) to get the \c syntax from /bin/echo.  That
no longer works, either.  /bin/echo is now a duplicate if csh's
internal echo.

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