> 
> IMVNSHO the SysV style implementation best achieves the purpose of
> 'echo', as it is most commonly used in shell scripts.  The original V7
> implementation is just not quite flexible enough for all common uses.

I have to agree....

There are very few shell scripts that actually have variables (etc)
with real '\' in them.  Mainly because they don't tend to occur
in filenames and the shell has difficulty reading binary files.
('read -r line' isn't traditionally available)

	David

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