Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/09/06/03:49:06
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> Because many UNIX shells don't have a builtin echo. In fact, I'd say
> the large majority of /bin/sh's on UNIX systems don't have one, and
> /bin/sh is the shell make defaults to using.
Interesting. I looked at the sh man page before asking, and it was
there. I guess I did that on one of the few boxes whose shell does
have echo.
> If all MSDOS shells do have it (what's out there besides bash?), then
> there's no reason not to introduce it for MSDOS, tho.
Bash is the one used most. There's also a little-used port of tcsh
(which has echo) and the old ms_sh (which also has it).
I'm going to add "echo" to the MSDOS branch. Thanks for the
feedback.
(Perhaps the WINDOWS32 branch also needs to add "echo"?)
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