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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix deficiencies/problems (immediate character echoing)
Message-ID: <7201@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 14 May 89 22:04:45 GMT
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In article <134@mcl.UUCP> stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions), responding
to a "VMS Forever!" person, writes:

>You want read(2) to write? :-)

It makes a certain amount of vicious sense.  In VMS, the only way to
write a string from a script without a trailing newline is to use READ
rather than WRITE.  Honest!
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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