Re: Problems with echo. (echo period)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:45:10 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Aaron Shatters <address@hidden>
> 
> "make" doesn't recognize this as a shell command because the "echo." command 
> is not in the shell command list for dos, and furthermore, the arguments are 
> not separated from the command by a space or tab.  I have patched the 3.81 
> source code, but I guess that I should get agreement that this needs to be 
> fixed before I get to exited.

I'm not sure what feature are you missing.  Is it the ability to
produce an empty line without using a Unixy shell?  If so, why is this
so important?