From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:01:17 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <86vcythf8h.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Message-ID: References: <86fwpz55nj.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <257867.782e4d7b.wsc0.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> <5ddd9deccbea5e8556dfc0c228b63311@ladd.quanstro.net> <86vcythf8h.fsf@cmarib.ramside> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin? Topicbox-Message-UUID: c8e9576c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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