Thanks for a load of instant respones ...
/usr/bin/echo has changed under DU 4.0 but works as advertised in the
man page
i.e. you now need to set CMD_ENV=bsd to get echo -n to work.
My problem was not realising that ksh has its own builtin echo command.
The reason for this was that "which echo" gives /usr/bin/echo under ksh,
what I should have checked was "type echo" which correctly identifies
echo as a ksh builtin command.
I'm learning very slowly - honestly !
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Received on Wed Jul 03 1996 - 18:38:31 NZST