[Ed Warnicke <hagbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 02:25, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:36:11PM -0500, Ed Warnicke wrote:
> > It turns out to be a problem with sed under Solaris.
> > It's simply broken.
> 
> "Broken" only if you consider a low output line length limit to be
> "broken" rather than just "inadequate" - I wouldn't consider that
limit
> a bug, I'd just consider it a misfeature.

Perhaps I am simply ungenerous with Sun at this stage... I've suffered
a great deal under their 'misfeatures'.  

> 
> > The solution is to get the GNU sed.
> 
> "/usr/xpg4/bin/sed" seems to work also (although, as I remember, it
also
> gives you a version of "more" that may irritate the heck out of you;
as
> I remember, it irritated the heck out of me - I think it might have
> behaved like "less", which also irritates the heck out of me - I don't
> want pager programs to prompt me for a keystroke after they've printed
> out the last line of the last file, and then beep at me when I type a
> space, I want them to exit).

Ah... one of the great religious wars...  people who want their
paginator to fall of the end vs people who want to be able to scroll
backwards easily with their paginator... more or less :)

Ed

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