Re: as_echo/bs_echo still required?

[Paul Eggert]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> it looks like doing so effectively deprecates Solaris 7 support

That's fine.  Sun (now Oracle) stopped supporting Solaris 7
in August 2008.  Even Solaris 8 is fair game now; its end of
support was March 2012.  (Solaris 9's end of support will be
in October of this year.)

I wouldn't spend much time worrying about the older systems
that lack a 'printf' command.