Roland Mainz wrote: <snip>
> The issue is that "print" (and "printf") are looking for arguments and > are confused by an input string which starts with "-". You can avoid > this issue by using the POSIX end-of-options marker "--", e.g. $ print > -- "------------" # should work for both ksh88 and ksh93. Using any of the following does not help: tet_infoline "-- --------------------------------" tet_infoline "--" "-------------------------------------------------=" tet_infoline() just does not seem to allow passing flags to print(). v.