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From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] echo -n
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UNIX variants seem to vary (yes, I know, that's why they are called
variants) in their behaviour.  On FreeBSD and NetBSD echo -n | wc
produces 0 0 0, agreeing with my intuition and the plan9 behaviour.
On Solaris, on the other hand, echo -n | wc produces 1 1 3.
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