>>>>> "David" == David R Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> As mentioned on the new "preparing for 10.5" page on the fink wiki, David> echo -n is now deprecated in fink. I have edited the vast majority David> of packages where this occurs to conform to the new version. Instead of David> echo -n "string" David> one should now write David> /bin/echo "string\c" Well, this is a sad day. Ever since Unix V7 (the One True Unix), echo -n worked. The \c was introduced by the Sys3 (later Sys-V) cretins. Unfortunately, SysV was adopted as POSIX, more or less. It's sad that we're losing the legacy means. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
