Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:19:21 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	on 23 Apr 2001 20:36:26 +0200)
Subject: Re: (Fileutils) More test suite & Fetish.pm problems
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> From: Jim Meyering <jim AT meyering DOT net>
> Date: 23 Apr 2001 20:36:26 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 
> | On 23 Apr 2001, Jim Meyering wrote:
> |
> | > Changing the test suite so it accommodates this behavior would be a pain.
> |
> | I'd think that passing the message through Sed to remove the part before
> | the colon, or even just testing whether the message includes _a match_
> | for the string you expect (rather than equality to that string) wouldn't
> | be hard.  What am I missing?
> 
> Doing it a few times isn't too bad.
> Doing it 20 or 30 times would be a pain,

Sorry, I assumed that there's a single place where this comparison is
made.