In MAKE, the echo command is implemented with system().

Rajiv Bhagwat wrote in message <9nmtnq$27vs$1@digitaldaemon.com>...
>Ha! That one worked. ;) Cheating the linker with 2 non-existing libraries,
>uh?
>Thanks.
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>For record, I could use the 'echo' for creating detail lines for IMPORTS section of a .def file, (these lines start with spaces or tabs) as echo
just
>eats up the first space and copies everything out.
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>With 'echo' being an in-built command, I guess this has to be the portable
>(and efficient) way of creating uniform makefiles. All these days I was
>using an ancient Borland 'maker' for sc projects, with yet another way for
>creating response files.
>Thanks for all the clarifications.
>-- Rajiv
>Oh: It looks like 'echo' is not always a built in command for 'make', some
>versions use the shell?
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>Walter <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:9nl9o2$1cbd$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> Just use a comma, not a blank line. -Walter
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