Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!andrew From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: echo Keywords: TUB Message-ID: <9791@alice.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 89 17:58:17 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 4 the echo command on UIMPS 4.0 seems to return an exit status of 255 if it echoes more than 256 characters (which it does so successfully). i thought we fixed this sort of thing in V7.