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Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> I doubt that that's a matter of whether you use Cygwin or not but a matter
> of whether you use the echo command from the GNU core utilities or not. On
> your True64 unix, you propably don't.

This statement isn't necessarily correct. I use bash and doing an
echo <something>
there won't call the executable from the coreutils but the bash builtin. But 
since both behave very similar wrt escape characters that doesn't matter too 
much, I guess.

Regards
  mks

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