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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: flexfax-2.1.0 patches for 386bsd
Message-ID: <almC6uFu5.CC@netcom.com>
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References: <1993May08.212206.22159@crash> <1sj9ii$rkp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 03:46:53 GMT
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In article <1sj9ii$rkp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ljo@vger.eeap.cwru.edu (L Jonas Olsson) writes:
>Terry Dawson's patches to FlexFAX should not be needed, they were mainly:
>
>1. Fixing the paths etc, that configure should do. Configure
> needs an ed(1) that handles commands like s;/bin;/sbin; to
> work. From the POSIX file in Andrew Moore's (alm) ed(1):
>
> Synopsis: (.,.)s/RE/replacement/flags
> ...
> Any character other than <space> or <newline> can be
> used instead of a slash to delimit the RE and the replacement.
I think you are using a different ed(1) - while the above description
is correct, it is not an excerpt from any man page I wrote! My ed is
fully POSIX compliant and works fine!
> There has been patches (By alm and me) to elvis-1.7 so that
> it can be installed as an ed(1) that handles this, but his
> ed(1) (it is a pure ed, not related to elvis) does not handle
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> this other delimiters.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jonas, give me a break. This simply is not true!
I don't recommend using vi as it is not an ed replacement.
-AM