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Date:      Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:38:38 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject:   Re: WordPerfect and Z-Mail for SCO - success! 
Message-ID:  <9508161338.AA01035@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6102.808522422@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <199508151224.OAA03941@uriah.heep.sax.de> <6102.808522422@time.cdrom.com>

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<<On Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:33:42 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> said:

> I thought about that, but wouldn't making the default one just
> grok \c be a bit easier?  Or does POSIX disallow that in an echo? :-)

To the contrary, POSIX requires `\c' and disallows `-n'.  Yet Another
Stupid Mistake on the part of P1003.2.

-GAWollman

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