hi, are you all student ? or have a job in a company ? why you have so many time in Plan9 ? Are all you spare all your spare time in Play9 ? On 4/1/08, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote: > > > this is a very odd case which can be worked around without adding --. > > the adding of which adds another odd case. what if you want to echo > > --? so adding -- special case code doesn't really solve any problems. > > echo -- {whatever} # {whatever} can be "--", "-n", or other things > >