Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/09/09/07:55:49
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Ivo Janssen wrote:
>
> > sed: garbled command s|^COMPILERS[ ]*=[ ]*\
> >
> Write a simple program that just prints its arguments (by walking the
> argv[] array), call it sed.exe, rename the real sed.exe, put the fake
> sed.exe in the same place and run the script. Then look what
> arguments did your sed get and see if you can guess what's the reason
> of this snafu. If you cannot figure it out, post the results here.
OK: This is what is wrong with my system setup (because that's what
it is, not sed oir djgpp or whatever!)): I'm working here on a
corporate LAN. Last week they changed something in the Netware logon
scripts, thereby placing a new entry in my path: X:\BATCH. And guess
what pre-historic version of sed is in directory X:\BATCH .......
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
Oh well, guess we have a job offer for a new sysadmin very shortly
(after we buried this one).
Thanks to Eli Zaretskii, for the tip above. After that, I noticed
that bash stillo complained, and ewasn't even calling my
C:\djgpp\bin\sed.exe, but rather X:\batch\sed.exe. The latter one is
dated 91/01/10 11:58. Don't know what version that is.
Ivo Janssen
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