Subject: Re: which echo.c would you choose?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/30/1999 12:00:48 
In message <19991130093850.A5158@goldberry.poofy.goof.com>, "Aaron J. Grier" wr
ites:
>So how do you output only -n?  echo -n -; echo n?  Seems silly.

You don't, of course!  This is why ksh has print, which has well-defined
semantics everywhere, and why the \c, though uglier, is "probably right".

-s