echo command always prints its arguments
    David Herron, NPR Lover 
    david at ukma.UUCP
       
    Sat Apr  6 16:22:24 AEST 1985
    
    
  
>Shouldn't this be in net.jokes?  If echo didn't print its arguments,
>what good would it be?!?  I mean, what else does your version do?
>Can you give me an example of how you would use your `-q' option?
Ok....
	echo -q This creates an empty file >new.file
Since, with csh, there is no longer an easy way to create an empty
file.  (With sh one could type just ">new.file").
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