Minor bug in 4.58.9: check_mail:123 "echo -n" is not portable

[Res]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Res wrote:

>> the problem is that "echo -n" does not work everywhere, specifically it 
>> doesn't
>> work in Solaris 9, 8, ... with the stock echo, or the built-in Bourne shell 
>> echo.

> This works fine on Linux, unfortunately I can't test Solaris

looks around.....

SunOS5.9
The echo utility writes its arguments, separated  by  BLANKs
      and  terminated  by  a  NEWLINE,  to the standard output. If
      there are no arguments, only the NEWLINE character  will  be
      written.

We use the -n to avoid the newline output so we can have the result on 
the same line, so if solaris we'd need use \c  to avoid it it seems.
  \c    Print line without new-line. All characters fol-
                  lowing the \c in the argument are ignored.


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Cheers
Res

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