From b9b6f9fc33915e768396681ecacba4b60949cbca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: schweikh <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:47:28 +0000
Subject: Note that -n and \c are implementation-defined as per TC1 to POSIX
 2001.

Approved by:	re@ (bmah)
MFC after:	3 days
---
 bin/echo/echo.1 | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/echo/echo.1 b/bin/echo/echo.1
index 694c573..e498af7 100644
--- a/bin/echo/echo.1
+++ b/bin/echo/echo.1
@@ -58,11 +58,20 @@ output.
 The following option is available:
 .Bl -tag -width flag
 .It Fl n
-Do not print the trailing newline character.  This may also be
-achieved by appending
+Do not print the trailing newline character.
+This may also be achieved by appending
 .Ql \ec
 to the end of the string, as is done
 by iBCS2 compatible systems.
+Note that this option as well as the effect of
+.Ql \ec
+are implementation-defined in
+.St -p1003.1-2001
+as amended by Cor. 1-2002.
+Applications aiming for maximum
+portability are strongly encouraged to use
+.Xr printf 1
+to suppress the newline character.
 .El
 .Pp
 Some shells may provide a builtin
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