Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: echo -n Message-ID: <4932@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 13:53:11 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4932 Posted: Tue Jan 15 13:53:11 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 13:53:11 EST References: <241@bpa.UUCP>, <7174@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 > ... (By the way, "echo" has no business being a shell > built-in, but that's life.) Sigh, I agree in a way, but... You pays your money and you takes your choice. Making "echo" a builtin makes such a striking difference in speed that it transforms shell applications programming. We did this ourselves to our local Bourne shell, and many things that we would have had to write in C before can now be done as shell scripts. I wish there was a cleaner way to get the same effect. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry