> Mike> This looks like a stylistic change that is contrary to the
> Mike> existing code. Is there some other benefit to using print? Note
> Mike> that the echo(1) man page says that "echo" is a built-in for ksh.
>
> One reason to use print occurred to me last night: error messages should
> usually go to stderr, not stdout, and that's easier with print ("print
> -u2") than with echo. So I'll go ahead with the switch to print.
While I agree using "print -u2 foo" is better, I'm not sure how it's
any harder than "echo foo >&2".
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meem
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