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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: echo -n
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 13:53:11 EST
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> ...  (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
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