From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 12:23:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA00284 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA00265; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:23:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA07201; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:21:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA24123; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:08:40 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:08:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: curt@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com (Curt Finch) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: python problems on freebsd (fwd) References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Curt Finch on Jan 10, 1997 06:48:56 -0600 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Curt Finch wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stephen Robert Norris > Curt Finch wrote: > > > > it's just the sed distributed w/ freebsd, i'm sure it's fine > > i'll work on it and send out the real answer when i find it > > > > thanx for your input > > It isn't. Use GNU sed. I had exactly the same problem on a clients > FreeBSD box, and using GNU sed fixed it completely. > > I wonder why FreeBSD has a broken sed? Because nobody reported a problem with it yet? Not really. Please, either report your problem for verification, or check the most recent version. Several bugs have been fixed between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6, and later on. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)