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Date:	Tue, 30 May 2000 15:35:48 +0300
From:	Ville Herva <vherva AT niksula DOT hut DOT fi>
To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Cc:	salikhyan DOT shamsutdinov AT intel DOT com
Subject:	Re: Problems with sed, make and NT4 in general
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On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:44:56PM +0200, you [Simon Sparkes] claimed:
> 2. sed -f file always reports errors on commands but the same commands
> work fine on the command line.
>    Command Example: s/abc/def/ fails in a file with the error "sed: file
> file line 1 Unknown option to 's'" but is the same command is fine on
> the command line. e.g. sed -e 's/abc/def/'

That's because sed uses mmap for reading the supplied by -f. With mmap,
cygwin does not do the CR/LF conversion (AFAIK). So sed sees option '^M'
for s// and barfs.

I think I could make a patch for that... 

> 3. The NT4 version seems to have significant delays starting any cygwin
> based program, but not Windows 2000

Make sure you don't have any network drives in your path or anything like
that.

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> for the individual named.  

Sendmail is for mail, named is for dns.


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