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+Path: mit-amt!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!gatech!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!herndon
+From: [e-mail]
+Newsgroups: net.sources
+Subject: GNU Echo, Release 1
+Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
+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
+
+     -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
+
+     -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
+
+     -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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