According to matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> :
> 
> the -e is being passed as a flag to "echo".  try:  echo "$MORE"

I guess the MAN pages for echo(1) and sh(1) leave a touch to be 
desired...

BTW, it was all a bona fide mistake on my part, and I'll still get to 
the bottom of it :-)
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Lucio de Re (lucio@proxima.alt.za)
Disclaimer: I'm working at getting my opinions to agree with me.