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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!usenet From: pinko commie faggot <panic@cyborganic.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI echo (/bin/echo && tcsh's builtin) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 23:16:37 -0600 Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31119E35.46304FEC@cyborganic.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.9.13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; Linux 1.3.57 i486) i have a problem with bsdi echo, both /bin/echo and tcsh's builtin. in my .tcshrc i have an alias that updates my xterm titles like so: alias precmd 'echo -n "\033]2; $USER@"$HOST" - $PWD\007"' bsdi echo doesn't understand the \### directive. is there an equivalent i should know of? this is bsdi 1.1, i don't have the chance to try it with 2.x any help would be appreciated. thanks your your time -- panic@cyborganic.com