X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-Id: <200309092103.h89L3d4Q021897@delorie.com> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:40:07 +0100 Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Sed 4.0.7 uploaded X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=1.1, required 5, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR) Note-from-DJ: This may be spam This is a port of GNU Sed 4.0.7 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. The port consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2003-09-09): Sed 4.0.7 binary, info and man format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed407b.zip Sed 4.0.7 dvi, html and ps format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed407d.zip Sed 4.0.7 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed407s.zip Send Sed specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel