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From: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Bug in echo??
Message-ID: <304@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 26 May 88 15:58:46 GMT
Sender: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk
Reply-To: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin)
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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Will someone please explain to me why echo has that test in it to
skip over the quotes (") character?  I removed it and all seems well but I'm
puzzled as to why it was there.

Took me a fair while to figure out why my libc makefile generator wasn't
outputing quotes!

	Lee.