Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:34:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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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"?)