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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:42:56 +0100
From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT igd DOT fhg DOT de>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Sed 4.1.4 uploaded
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This is a port of GNU Sed 4.1.4 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  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 (sed 4.1.2) to this one:

Sed 4.1.4

* \B correctly means "not on a word boundary" rather than "inside a word"

* bugfixes for platform without internationalization

* more thorough testing framework for tarballs (`make full-distcheck')

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sed 4.1.3

* regex addresses do not use leftmost-longest matching.  In other words,
  /.\+/ only looks for a single character, and does not try to find as
  many of them as possible like it used to do.

* added a note to BUGS and the manual about changed interpretation
  of `s|abc\|def||', and about localization issues.

* fixed --disable-nls build problems on Solaris.

* fixed `make check' in non-English locales.

* `make check' tests the regex library by default if the included regex
  is used (regex tests had to be enabled separately up to now).

----------------------------------------------------------------------------


  The port consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from
  ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2005-03-01):

    Sed 4.1.4 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed414b.zip

    Sed 4.1.4 dvi, html, pdf and ps format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed414d.zip

    Sed 4.1.4 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed414s.zip


  For the convenience of the WinXP users the binaries has been produced
  a second time using the djdev204 beta library. This package is available
  at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2005-03-01):

    Sed 4.1.4 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/sed414b.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 <juan DOT guerrero AT igd DOT fhg DOT de>