Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Echo Summary: New `reserved words' in ksh? Message-ID: <963@vsi.COM> Date: 6 Dec 88 01:17:18 GMT References: <6557@june.cs.washington.edu> <4712@mtgzz.att.com> Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 15 In article <4712@mtgzz.att.com>, avr@mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed) writes: > [...] Dave Korn's approach was to do a new builtin, print, with > options to emulate either "echo". How many people had to rename their `print' programs when they got ksh? Why in the world was such a commonly-used command name taken by ksh? Steve -- Stephen J. Friedl 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com V-Systems, Inc. attmail!vsi!friedl Santa Ana, CA USA +1 714 545 6442 {backbones}!vsi!friedl Nancy Reagan on my new '89 Mustang GT Convertible: "Just say WOW!"