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From: owen@well.UUCP (Owen DeLong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: IBM Extended Characters
Message-ID: <5753@well.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 06:12:53 GMT
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Reply-To: owen@well.UUCP (Owen DeLong)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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>> >Well on my machine running SCO XENIX/386 2.2.1 echo "\0376"
>> >yields \0376 and not a little square.

Is it possible you are using the C shell, and thus, using the csh built-in
echo command. (A problem I had to figure out by trial, error, and pouring
through csh(C) in the manual.  If this is the case, your solution may
be to either alias echo to /bin/echo or directly call /bin/echo instead
of echo.  Either of these two possibilities is discussed in the SCO
manual (see echo(C) and csh(C)).

Note:  in csh, echo responds from a built-in command, and is not subject to the
same performance specifications as /bin/echo which is documented in echo(C)

Owen DeLong
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