X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Received: by 2002:a0c:af8a:: with SMTP id s10mr3813667qvc.26.1549391516199; Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:31:56 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a81:5f89:: with SMTP id t131mr55309ywb.2.1549391516009; Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:31:56 -0800 (PST) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 10:31:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201902030713.x137Dto7011337@delorie.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=104.55.20.34; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO NNTP-Posting-Host: 104.55.20.34 References: <201902030713 DOT x137Dto7011337 AT delorie DOT com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <28e95e5c-1de0-4cad-a800-e6e02ee9ed18@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Sed 4.7 uploaded. From: "rugxulo AT gmail DOT com [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]" Injection-Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:31:56 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Bytes: 3005 Lines: 37 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Hi, On Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 1:14:02 AM UTC-6, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT hates DOT spam) [via djgpp-announce AT spam DOT sux] wrote: > > This is a port of GNU Sed 4.7 to MSDOS/DJGPP. > > - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3 and Win98SE. > There is no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS- > like OS. Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible > to configure and compile without LFN support. The port has been > compiled using gcc346 and bnu2311b. > > - The port has been tested by using it. I have used them only on WinXP. > It has worked flawlessly. I do not konw if this will ever be the case > on FreeDOS. I have never used/tested them in that environment. Sed is probably my favorite *nix tool. I've used it quite a bit in recent years. For a long time I was using HHsed, then Csed, but also GNU sed on the side (which was better but bigger and slower, harder to rebuild, not 8086 friendly). Minised is also interesting but it lacks one (non-standard) feature that I sometimes found useful. HHsed and Csed had upstream DOS builds while Minised is very easy to rebuild. All of them share a common lineage, all derivatives of a common code base (based upon code by Eric S. Raymond). But only Minised is (maybe?) maintained nowadays (last updated in 2014, but the maintainer is still active). Granted, it's probably stable, but there's still plenty that could be done to improve it. Just saying, since I prefer FreeDOS, I'm focused on what works there. And the DJGPP port of GNU sed works pretty well. I haven't tested literally everything, obviously, but compared to the others, it all seems to work correctly, in my experience. So, thanks again for your efforts.