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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
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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

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