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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:43:20 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] echo -n
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on unix this doesn't matter as much.  on plan 9, write boundaries were supposed to
be respected.

- erik
On Mon Nov 20 10:08:20 EST 2006, Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl wrote:
> > 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.