From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 16 11:38:00 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA20635 for current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:38:00 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA20628 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:37:58 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA01509; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:37:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:37:35 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9508161837.AA01509@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: WordPerfect and Z-Mail for SCO - success! In-Reply-To: <199508161626.SAA04920@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <9508161338.AA01035@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199508161626.SAA04920@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> To the contrary, POSIX requires `\c' and disallows `-n'. Yet Another >> Stupid Mistake on the part of P1003.2. > Neither: > 4.19.4 Operands > The following operands shall be supported by the implementation: > string A string to be written to standard output. If the first > operand is "-n" or if any of the operands contain a > backslash (\) character, the results are implementation > defined. You're right, I had the wrong standard. To the contrary, XPG4 requires `\c' and disallows `-n'. Yet Another Stupid Mistake on the part of X/Open. Whether we care to comply with XPG4 is another question altogether. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant