Hi, On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Clint Adams wrote: > That's silly. If you want echo to behave like /bin/echo, use /bin/echo. No that's silly yourself :-P Shells implement echo internally so they don't have to fork and exec a separate "echo" process for every "echo" command in scripts, not to provide an alternate implementation with surprise incompatibilities. Cheers, Joost