Hello,

BTW, sh echo builtin misses one of the susv3 feature: echoing '\a'...
Here is the colossal patch:


--- src/bin/sh/bltin/echo.c	Sun Nov  3 13:06:22 1996
+++ src/bin/sh/bltin/echo.c	Mon Oct  7 21:39:46 2002
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
 		while ((c = *p++) != '\0') {
 			if (c == '\\' && eflag) {
 				switch (*p++) {
+				case 'a':  c = '\a';  break;
 				case 'b':  c = '\b';  break;
 				case 'c':  return 0;		/* exit */
 				case 'f':  c = '\f';  break;


One of the greatest contributions one has ever seen...
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Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <tlaronde@polynum.org>
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