Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!m2c!applix!scott
From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bug in 1.3 SPEAK: device
Message-ID: <861@applix.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 88 18:17:12 GMT
References: <5009@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Reply-To: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <5009@garfield.MUN.EDU> john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell) writes:
>When writing to SPEAK:, the last byte appears to be getting lost. To see this
>yourself, try "echo >speak: <a single letter>". I've tried it out with a
>variety of sources of output and can definitely see the last letter is
>being eaten, eg. "hell" instead of "hello", "savin" instead of "saving", etc.

You are using the Dillon shell and its intrinsic "echo" command.
Try it from a virgin CLI, using 1.3 Echo, (or simply use "Echo"
instead of "echo") and it'll work.  I think this is related to
the same problem the shell has working with FF (FastFonts), as well.

-scott