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From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:50:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: Long delays running SED under Win98SE
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On 30 Jan 2002 at 15:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:
> 
> > > > sed -n -e '/\.eh_frame/,/\.section/p' <foo.s 
> > 
> > It seems to be wildcard expansion problem at program startup before main()
> > is called.
> 
> And what's new about that?  Wildcard expansion is always called at 
> startup time.
> 
> > 	djecho '/\.foo/'
> 
> Is it possible that the "/\" part is somehow interpreted by Windows as a 
> UNC (and then the call goes to a network, to look for a machine called 
> ".foo")?  For example, can you cut the startup time significantly by 
> playing with the string passed on the command line?

Yes it seems to be so. If I feed some real UNC after '/\' I'm getting much 
faster response time. Maybe it would be best to forbid an attempt
to interpret argument as UNC at program startup. 

Otherwise I'm getting trouble when feeding legal argument to SED
which perfectly works under Linux.
 
Andris