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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, 07 Sep 2004 20:08:06 +0200
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Sed 4.1.2 uploaded
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 This is a port of GNU Sed 4.1.2 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  This is a bug fix release, so it is seriously suggested to update
  from sed411[bds].zip to sed412[bds].zip if you are using sed 4.1.1.

  sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text
  transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline).
  While in some ways similar to an editor which permits scripted edits
  (such as ed), sed works by making only one pass over the input(s), and
  is consequently more efficient. But it is sed's ability to filter text
  in a pipeline which particularly distinguishes it from other types of
  editors.

  Please, read carefully the NEWS file to see the user visible changes
  and read the info or html docs to become familiar with the program.
  For beginers the chapter: examples in the info doc may be instructive.
  The chapter: Other resources for learning about 'sed' contains pointers
  to usefull sed specific urls.



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

  - The input stream is switched to binary mode, if it does not come from the
    console, 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.
  - 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.



  Here is an extract of the NEWS file showing the user visible changes from
  the last port to this one:

Sed 4.1.2

* fix bug in 'y' command in multi-byte character sets

* fix severe bug in parsing of ranges with an embedded open bracket

* fix off-by-one error when printing a "bad command" error

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  The port consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from
  ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2004-09-07):

    Sed 4.1.2 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed412b.zip

    Sed 4.1.2 dvi, html and ps format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed412d.zip

    Sed 4.1.2 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed412s.zip


  Send Sed specific bug reports to <bonzini 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>