clock and echo problems

[cliff bedore]

In article <1990Dec31.012532.17992 at sceard.Sceard.COM> mrm at Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
>This is probably just a case of RTFM, but here goes:
>
>Compaq Deskpro 386, Xenix 2.3.2, and the system clock loses an hour or
>two a day. CMOS clock is ok. This seems like it probably shouldn't happen :-)
>
>Anybody notice that under csh,
> % echo "--"
>works, but under /bin/sh,
> $ echo "--"
>doesn't work?
>Any good reason for such behavior from /bin/echo ?
>-- 
>Mike Murphy  mrm at Sceard.COM  ucsd!sceard!mrm  +1 619 598 5874

Yes.  in csh there is a built-in echo which gives the first result and since sh
doesn't have a bulit-in /bin/echo takes over.  (I went crazy on our Ultrix
system til I figured this out.)     

Oops, I just noticed that sh has a bulit-in echo also but it seems to work just
like /bin/echo

anyhow that is the difference.

Cliff