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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
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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.