Echo

Stephen J. Friedl friedl at vsi.COM
Tue Dec 6 11:17:18 AEST 1988


In article <4712 at mtgzz.att.com>, avr at mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed) writes:
> [...] Dave Korn's approach was to do a new builtin, print, with
> options to emulate either "echo".

How many people had to rename their `print' programs when
they got ksh?  Why in the world was such a commonly-used
command name taken by ksh?

     Steve

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