Problems with FreeBSD 6.0

[Vyacheslav Anikin]

Здравствуйте, gs.

Вы писали 13 апреля 2006 г., 2:48:44:

gjc>         I tried out  FreeBSD 6.0  (sorry, I copied just part or
gjc>  uname -a  and I got something like "LINUX  2.4.2 FreeBSD 6.0 -
gjc> Release #0: Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005  i686 i686 i386 GNU/LINUX")
gjc> and was surprised to find that things in the  echo  command didn't
gjc> work.  When I typed 
gjc>                 echo    "a\tb"
gjc> I got  a\tb , no tab replacing the "\t"  Same for "\n".
gjc>         When I tried to type
gjc>                 echo    "<tab>b"
gjc> where  <tab>  stands for hitting the  tab  key, when I hit  <tab>  the
gjc> first time, nothing happened, when I hit it immediately afterward, I
gjc> got an  ls -A  listing.  I did manage to get a  tab  into the string
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ok. If you want to print out <tab> you must to use sequence ^V^I.
Where ^I is <tab> char. Or you may use <tab>-key instead of ^I.
That there's the same. Or I something didn't understand?

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С уважением,
 Vyacheslav                          mailto:ghos at mail.ru