From:	ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Subject:	Re: -@file
31 Mar 1998 17:21:56 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<199803311456.JAA26102.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@subrogation.cygnus.com>
References:	<3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19980327165646 DOT 009cc180 AT pop DOT cygnus DOT com>
To:	ebachalo AT cygnus DOT com
Cc:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com, fgeers AT cygnus DOT com

   Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:56:46 -0800
   From: Eric Bachalo <ebachalo AT cygnus DOT com>

   The command 'echo -@foo' will echo the contents of the file foo to the screen.

I presume that this is not literally true.  That is
    cat foo
and
    echo -@foo
should not produce identical output.  I would expect the latter ot
compress unquoted strings of spaces, tabs, and newlines into a single
space.  In particular, barring quoting, I would expect it to always
print only a single newline.

Ian

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