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Date: Mon,  4 Apr 2011 16:01:17 -0700
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?
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> Unfortunately, echon.c doesn't solve the problem either, because it
> doesn't output a trailing newline.

That's the whole point.  'echon' replaces 'echo -n ...', then echo.c loses
all knowledge of any option flags.

--lyndon