Thanks, The \c flag was my solution for our local installation. However, the printf utility is reported to be a more portable and equally effective solution, and I was just curious if this was something you could investigate putting in the official distribution (my motivation is entirely selfish of course, so I don't have to apply this local fix whenever I upgrade FSL!). -syam Steve Smith wrote: > Hi - you might be able to fix this by changing the -n to > appending `\c' to the end of the string? > Cheers. > > > On 28 Nov 2006, at 19:44, Syam Gadde wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> AIX is one of a few systems whose echo command does not support >> the -n option (to suppress a newline). This shows up a couple times >> in feat.tcl, when updating the design.lcon file. Any thoughts on >> using the "printf" command instead (which doesn't add a newline >> at the end unless explicitly requested)? >> >> Otherwise, after getting through the compile hurdles (significant >> for AIX), we have been using FSL on AIX 5.2 with success for a >> while now. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -syam > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --- > Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering > Associate Director, Oxford University FMRIB Centre > > FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK > +44 (0) 1865 222726 (fax 222717) > [log in to unmask] http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---