Mail Archives: djgpp/2012/12/17/18:41:21
This is a port of GNU ed 1.7 to MSDOS/DJGPP.
GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display,
modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via
shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in
the current directory and cannot execute shell commands.
DJGPP specific changes.
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All the changes done to the original distribution are documented in the
diffs file and located together with all the files needed to configure
the package (config.bat, config.sed, config.site, etc.) in the /djgpp subdir.
The DJGPP specific functionality of this port is the same than the previous
port. This port does not support dos-style (backslash) file names in the ed
scripts because the backslash character is used as the escape character by
ed. This is well known from the old port too.
For DJGPP specific issues please read carefully the /djgpp/readme file,
especially the section `Known bugsŽ. Please note that all test concerning
piping will fail. There is no way to solve this issue.
User visible changes (from NEWS):
Changes in version 1.7:
Show the "Try 'ed --help' for more information." message if a bad option
is given in the command line.
Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU Coding
Standards.
The description of address offsets in the manual and a link to the Bash
manual have been fixed.
Configure option "--datadir" has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to
follow GNU Standards.
The target "install-bin" has been added to the Makefile.
If you want to recompile the package, run the command:
make
Install the products running the command:
make install
There is should be noticed that the testsuite in this package does not work.
As usual I have configured and produced the binaries using stock djdev203.
If you are a WinXP user you will have to reconfigure and recompile from scratch
running the commands:
make distclean
djgpp\config
make
make install
These command sequence will produce and install the binaries, info docs and
unformated man pages in the djgpp installation tree defined by /den/env/DJDIR
The port has been compiled using stock djdev203 (patchlevel 2) and consists
of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and
mirrors as (timestamp 2012-12-17):
GNU ed 1.7 binary, info and man format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ed-17b.zip
GNU ed 1.7 dvi, html, ps and pdf format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ed-17d.zip
GNU ed 1.7 source:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ed-17s.zip
The binaries have been produced a second time using the stock version of
djdev204 beta library. This package is available at ftp.delorie.com and
mirrors as (timestamp 2012-12-17):
GNU ed 1.7 binary, info and man format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/ed-17b.zip
Send ed specific bug reports to <bug-ed AT gnu DOT org>.
Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.
If you are not sure if the failure is really a ed failure
or a djgpp specific failure, report it here and *not* to
<bug-ed AT gnu DOT org>.
Enjoy.
Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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