At 10:08 AM 4/26/95 +0100, Stefano Bargioni wrote:
> In <[log in to unmask]> Jeff Brown <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>> In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
>> says...
>> >
>> >Is there a manner to ECHO a string without a <CR><LF> appended to it?
>> >It will be very useful for sending escape sequences to the terminal or a
>> >line printer before printing texts.
>> >Thanks for every idea.
>>
>> You could "print" a file which contains those characters prior to
>> "print"ing the text you wish printed.  You could also have a program
>> output the characters.
>>
>> Jeff Brown
>> [log in to unmask]
>
>Thanks to Jeff, but sorry: IMHO this is a trivial solution; for instance,
>how to print a string in position x,y to a terminal, using ECHO in a command
>file?
>
  Isn't printf a part of the posix spec.  You should be able to do printf
from a
shell.  Sorry I don't have a 5.0 machine to test this on right now.
 
Jim