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From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Echo
Summary: IEEE 1003.2, draft 7, specifies System V behaviour
Message-ID: <950@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 11:45:31 GMT
References: <6557@june.cs.washington.edu> <14799@mimsy.UUCP> <656@root44.co.uk>
Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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In article <656@root44.co.uk> gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) writes:
>X/Open specifies SysV behaviour for echo.  What does POSIX say?

Draft 7 of IEEE 1003.2, ``Shell and Application Utility Interface'',
specifies System V-style behaviour only for the echo command.  A note in
the rationale (all rationale wil be omited from the final standard) points
out that the BSD version of echo does not conform to the proposed
definition.  No unresolved objections to the definition are listed.
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
domo@sphinx.co.uk  domo@riddle.uucp