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+Path: mit-amt!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!gatech!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!herndon
+From: herndon@umn-cs.UUCP
+Newsgroups: net.sources
+Subject: GNU Echo, Release 1
+Message-ID: <1600001@umn-cs.UUCP>
+Date: 28 Oct 85 18:23:00 GMT
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+/* Written 12:22 pm  Oct 28, 1985 by umn-cs!herndon in umn-cs:net.jokes */
+/* ---------- "GNU Echo, Release 1" ---------- */
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+GNUecho(1)          UNIX Programmer's Manual           GNUecho(1)
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+NAME
+     echo - echo arguments
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+SYNOPSIS
+     echo [ options ] ...
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+DESCRIPTION
+     _^HE_^Hc_^Hh_^Ho writes its arguments separated by blanks and terminated
+     by a newline on the standard output.  Options to filter and
+     redirect the output are as follows:
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+     -2   generate rhyming couplets from keywords
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+     -3   generate Haiku verse from keywords
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+     -5   generate limerick from keywords
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+     -a   convert ASCII to ASCII
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+     -A   disambiguate sentence structure
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+     -b   generate bureaucratese equivalent (see -x)
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+     -B   issue equivalent C code with bugs fixed
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+     -c   simplify/calculate arithmetic expression(s)
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+     -C   remove copyright notice(s)
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+     -d   define new echo switch map
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+     -D   delete all ownership information from system files
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+     -e   evaluate lisp expression(s)
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+     -E   convert ASCII to Navajo
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+     -f   read input from file
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+     -F   transliterate to french
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+     -g   generate pseudo-revolutionary marxist catch-phrases
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+     -G   prepend GNU manifesto
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+     -h   halt system (reboot suppressed on Suns, Apollos, and
+          VAXen, not supported on NOS-2)
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+     -i   emulate IBM OS/VU (recursive universes not supported)
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+     -I   emulate IBM VTOS 3.7.6 (chronosynclastic infundibulae
+          supported with restrictions documented in IBM VTOS
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+Printed 10/28/85         18 January 1983                        1
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+GNUecho(1)          UNIX Programmer's Manual           GNUecho(1)
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+          Reference Manual rev 3.2.6)
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+     -J   generate junk mail
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+     -j   justify text (see -b option)
+
+     -k   output "echo" software tools
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+     -K   delete privileged accounts
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+     -l   generate legalese equivalent
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+     -L   load echo modules
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+     -M   generate mail
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+     -N   send output to all reachable networks (usable with -J,
+          -K, -h options)
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+     -n   do not add newline to the output
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+     -o   generate obscene text
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+     -O   clean up dirty language
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+     -p   decrypt and print /etc/passwd
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+     -P   port echo to all reachable networks
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+     -P1  oolcay itay
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+     -q   query standard input for arguments
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+     -r   read alternate ".echo" file on start up
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+     -R   change root password to "RMS"
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+     -s   suspend operating system during output (Sun and VAX BSD
+          4.2 only)
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+     -S   translate to swahili
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+     -T   emulate TCP/IP handler
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+     -t   issue troff output
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+     -u   issue unix philosophy essay
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+     -v   generate reverberating echo
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+     -V   print debugging information
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+Printed 10/28/85         18 January 1983                        2
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+GNUecho(1)          UNIX Programmer's Manual           GNUecho(1)
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+     -x   decrypt DES format messages (NSA secret algorithm CX
+          3.8, not distributed outside continental US)
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+     _^HE_^Hc_^Hh_^Ho is useful for     producing diagnostics in shell programs
+     and for writing constant data on pipes.  To send diagnostics
+     to the standard error file, do `echo ... 1>&2'.
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+AUTHOR
+     Richard M. Stallman
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