Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr
aj> If it's not to enable backwards and cross-Unix compatability, why
aj> do we care about POSIX at all?
aj> bash, /bin/echo and POSIXLY_CORRECT /bin/echo all treat "\c" as a
aj> literal, for reference.
Herbert> GNU has always adopted the BSD behaviour of not interpreting
Herbert> back slashes. All SYSV shells behaved like
Herbert> printf "%b\n" "$*"
Herbert> This includes pdksh.
BTW, is the following of any import?
Andrew> Submitted-by: andrew@u1.abs.net (Andrew Josey)
Andrew> Austin Group Status Update Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open
Andrew> Group. June 2002
[snip]
Andrew> The ninth meeting of the joint technical working group
Andrew> informally known as the Austin Group was held at The Open
Andrew> Group facility in Reading, UK on May 8-9 2002. The meeting had
Andrew> 20 attendees (nine of which via teleconference).
Andrew> 120 aardvark defect reports were reviewed during the meeting.
Andrew> It was agreed to form a subgroup to address the Regular
Andrew> Expressions issues and that this would be chaired by David
Andrew> Korn. It was agreed that the definition of the echo utility
Andrew> should revert to XCU5, thereby accomodating the historical
Andrew> practice of BSD, and that this be a candidate change for TC1.
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