abcscnuk@Twg-S5.uucp (Naoto Kimura (ACM)) (10/18/90)
Actually, to be nit-picky, using ASCII 255 doesn't make ECHO output a
blank line... Nor is that character an 'unprintable'... it just
happens to be an INVISIBLE character -- like ASCII 0. The unfortunate
thing about these invisible characters is that that sometimes I've run
into situations where they become visible, especially if you try to use
a terminal as the console.
One other annoying thing with the command processor is that there was no
means by which you can get the date and time w/o getting a prompt. Of
course I've done things like make a file with only a newline (note you
CAN'T create one by doing echo.>newline since it contains a space before
the newline!) in a text editor and doing the following date<newline.
]~ steve kite - hp-ptp!stevek - stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM ~
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