Message-Id: <200107241624.MAA22074@delorie.com>
From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:13:22 +0200
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Sed 3.02.80 uploaded
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

This is a port of GNU Sed 3.02.80 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  This port is based on the alpha release of GNU Sed available as:
    <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-3.02.80.tar.gz>

  The s/// command now understands the following escapes (in both halves):
	\a	an "alert" (BEL)
	\f	a form-feed
	\n	a newline
	\r	a carriage-return
	\t	a horizontal tab
	\v	a vertical tab
	\oNNN	a character with the octal value NNN
	\dNNN	a character with the decimal value NNN
	\xNN	a character with the hexadecimal value NN
  This behavior is disabled if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
  Please read the news and changelog files to become familiar with the changes
  in this product.


  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  - Changes needed for NLS support with DJGPP.
  - Eli Zaretskii contributed a patch to open the input stream in binary mode
    on platforms, like DOS/WIN95, that distinguish between text and binary
    files. This will allow to process files that contain embedded ^Z and lone
    ^M characters. This patch has already been submitted by him to the sed
    maintainer, so this feature may become a standard feature in the next
    official sed release. Thanks to Eli Zaretskii for contributing this.
  - If you have no DJGPP port of Sed installed and you want to rebuild this
    package from sources, please read Eli Zaretskii's readme file called:
    README.ORIG located in the djgpp directory. This explicitely explains
    how to build the binary from the source package if no sed executable
    is installed.
    As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, readme files, etc.)
    are located in the djgpp subdir.

  This package has been configured and compiled with NLS support, so you can
  expect the binary to talk in your mother tongue if supported. The README file
  explains how to set up the required variables in your djgpp.env to enable NLS.


  The port consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from
  simtel.net and mirrors as:

    Sed 3.02.80 binary, info and man format documentation:
    http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/sed3028b.zip&name=sed3028b.zip

    Sed 3.02.80 dvi, html and ps format documentation:
    http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/sed3028d.zip&name=sed3028d.zip

    Sed 3.02.80 source:
    http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/sed3028s.zip&name=sed3028s.zip


  Send Sed specific bug reports to <bug-gnu-utils AT gnu DOT org>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
  to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

      Guerrero, Juan Manuel <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>