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From: porges@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: echo -n
Message-ID: <1898@inmet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 02:25:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 02:25:57 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!porges    Jan 14 13:26:00 1985


	The confusion about echo -n is that some System III and such-type
systems use something else to suppress the newline:

% echo "string\c"

	puts out "string" with no newline.
					-- Don Porges
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