>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Lars> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
Lars> | Angus> I am trying to introduce some of the changes I've made
Lars> in my | Angus> wrappers tree back into the cvs, but I have a
Lars> problem.
>>
Lars> | Angus> In the xforms/forms directory is a shell script,
Lars> fdfix.sh that | Angus> is used to manipulate the output from
Lars> fdesign to a form | Angus> suitable for LyX. I have added this:
>>
Lars> | Angus> INTRO_MESSAGE="// File generated by fdesign from
Lars> ${FDFILE} \n"\ | Angus> "// and modified by fdfix.sh for use by
Lars> LyX.\n\n"\ "// WARNING! | Angus> All changes made to this file
Lars> will be lost!\n\n"\ "// Copyright | Angus> $DATE the LyX
Lars> Team\n// Read the file COPYING"
>>
Lars> | Angus> echo ${INTRO_MESSAGE} > ${HOUT}
>>
Lars> | Use printf instead.

Lars> Is that a good solution? Printf seems to me to be aven more
Lars> unportable than echo

See the following solaris man page, for example
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?echo+1

Lars> what about "echo -e" ?

Not supported everywhere. See above.

JMarc

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