sed unterminated 's' command

[Luke Kendall <luke at research dot canon dot com dot au>]

Hi

This is related to gnu-win32 beta 17.1 under Windows Nt 3.51,
and also the version of August 1996.  It looks like sed has
had a bug introduced.

The true sed version number is unknown, since the old and new versions
(as evidenced by executable file size) report the same version number.

Here are the details:

$ x:/gnu-win32/bin/sed --version
GNU sed version 2.05
$ x:/gnu-win32/bin-new/sed --version
GNU sed version 2.05
$ d:/user/local/bin/sed --version
GNU sed version 2.05

$ ls -l  d:/user/local/bin/sed.exe x:/gnu-win32/bin-new/sed.exe  
x:/gnu-win32/bin/sed.exe
-rwxrwxrwa   1 Everyone        Everyone          89600 Apr 23 17:15  
d:/user/local/bin/sed.exe
-rwxrwxrwx   1 PAGE\luke       PAGE\Domain+Users   89600 Sep  3  1996  
x:/gnu-win32/bin-new/sed.exe
-rwxrwxrwx   1 PAGE\greyham    PAGE\Domain+Users   52224 Apr 13  1996  
x:/gnu-win32/bin/sed.exe

$ echo fred | x:/gnu-win32/bin/sed 's/.*/xxx &/'
xxx fred
$ echo fred | x:/gnu-win32/bin-new/sed 's/.*/xxx &/'
//x/gnu-win32/bin-new/sed: Unterminated `s' command
$ echo fred | d:/user/local/bin/sed 's/.*/xxx &/'
//d/user/local/bin/sed: Unterminated `s' command
$

Regards,

luke
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