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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:54:32 -0500
From:      christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        tcsh-bugs@mx.gw.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcsh 6.10.00 echo;echo;echo; bug with fix
Message-ID:  <20010314145432.84FFD32FC@hrothgar.gw.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103141441.aa50079@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> from David Malone (Mar 14,  2:41pm)

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On Mar 14,  2:41pm, dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: tcsh 6.10.00 echo;echo;echo; bug with fix

| > echo is more like as external command, even in its internal form it
| > tends to be compatible even with SysV-isms. What non-BSD grown (i.e. SysV)
| > csh echo prints?
| 
| Solaris, AIX and HPUX all print nothing. I guess all csh versions
| are likely to be BSD dervied, so there is likely to be a consistant
| response.
| 
| Maybe something could be done with the echo_style variable to
| control what is done?

Yeah, that is a good idea. I think that I'll add an echo_style "bsdbug",
and leave the default alone.

christos

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