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From: Matthew Hannigan <mlh@zip.com.au>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] weird print(2) problems...
Date: Thu,  6 Sep 2001 10:19:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B973183.580C73B1@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010905191944.AC31319A04@mail.cse.psu.edu>



Russ Cox wrote:
> then {echo ''} shouldn't print a newline, as there's nothing to echo.
> there's no obvious answer except that we shouldn't try to "fix" it.
>
> see _The Unix Programming Environment_,
> Kernighan & Pike (1984), pp. 77-79, "A digression on echo".
> [ .. ]

damn, you beat me to it!


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-06  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-05 19:19 Russ Cox
2001-09-05 19:40 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-06  8:19 ` Matthew Hannigan [this message]
2001-09-06 16:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-09-06 20:45   ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-11 11:16 rob pike
     [not found] <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2001-09-05 21:11 ` Russ Cox
2001-09-05 21:24   ` Scott Schwartz
2001-09-05 19:46 Russ Cox
2001-09-05 18:40 Russ Cox
2001-09-05 19:58 ` Dan Cross
2001-09-05 15:11 forsyth
2001-09-05 18:23 ` Dan Cross
2001-09-05 19:10   ` Boyd Roberts
     [not found] <cross@math.psu.edu>
2001-09-04 19:02 ` Dan Cross
2001-09-04 19:08   ` Scott Schwartz
2001-09-05 14:22     ` Dan Cross
2001-09-05 19:01       ` Boyd Roberts

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