One difference between RH5.x and RH6.1 is that under RH6.1 the echo program
now needs a -e flag to cause it to recognize backslash escapes.
This broke come code of mine as it is a departure from System V'ish UNIX.
I believe that FreeBSD requires the -e, though.
Bob Toxen
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