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From: mac@tesla.UUCP (Michael Mc Namara)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.bugs
Subject: Re: more on echo command
Message-ID: <547@tesla.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 05:53:55 EST
Article-I.D.: tesla.547
Posted: Fri Apr 19 05:53:55 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Apr-85 03:19:56 EST
References: <199@phri.UUCP> <1194@houxm.UUCP> <171@uwvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mac@tesla.UUCP (Michael Mc Namara)
Organization: Cornell University, Electrical Engineering Dept.
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Xref: watmath net.unix:4285 net.bugs:622
Summary: 

In article <171@uwvax.UUCP> dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs) writes:
>>                                                     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.
>
>With the 4.2BSD csh, the command 'echo -n ^G' works just fine.  This is also
>the behavior of the 4.2 /bin/echo.  The other version works on Sys[35] and
>version 7 (I think, it's been a while).
>-- 
>dave cohrs
>...!{allegra,harvard,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!dave
>dave@wisc-limburger.arpa
>
>    (bug?  what bug?  that's a feature!)

	We're beta testing a U**X 4.2/SYS5 on a Data General, and while
echo "kalshf\c" works in sh, the same thing in csh produces
% echo "kalshf\c"
kalshf\c
%
	Oh well, I guess that's why they've got us testing it; who else but
a net reader would care?				-mac@tesla.arpa

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