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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Echo
Message-ID: <747@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 88 21:33:21 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Quoting the 'echo' command will force no builtin to be used; it will
>also prevent an alias from being evaluated (at least both in the csh
>and a Bourne-ish shell I use here).

Not in the SunOS 4.0 Bourne shell, which means almost certainly not in
the S5R3 Bourne shell, and probably not in any Bourne shell with "echo"
built in....