Unix deficiencies/problems (immediate character echoing)

[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <134 at mcl.UUCP> stacy at mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions), responding
to a "VMS Forever!" person, writes:

>You want read(2) to write? :-)

It makes a certain amount of vicious sense.  In VMS, the only way to
write a string from a script without a trailing newline is to use READ
rather than WRITE.  Honest!
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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