Re: Distributed Ada (Annex E)

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

This has proven enlightening -- GNU sed 3.02 behaves differently
on Linux than on XP -- with the same shell.

On XP I'm using cygwin.  I'll have to get and try mingw, and try
the latest GNU sed (if it's not 3.02), and send a bug report to
the appropriate folks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilhelm Spickermann" <wilhelm.spickermann@t-online.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: October 25, 2002 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: Distributed Ada (Annex E)


> "David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message
news:<mailman.1035487262.1881.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> ...
> > > > FWIW on my system (XP Professional) GNU sed version 3.02
> > > > works just fine, but clearly the 013 is wrong, unless you're
> > > > trying to delete Vertical Tabs (not very likely).
> > >
> > > Well, my 3.02 works fine too :-) . But AFAIK the backslash is used in sed
> >  to
> > > escape single characters and not for octal notation. So I think
> > > sed 's/\015//g' is the same as
> > > sed 's/015//g' and it does not remove any carriage returns but only
> >  strings
> > > "015".
> > >
> > At the shell prompt I issued sed s/015//g not sed 's/015//g'  -- perhaps
> > that is the
> > difference
> >
> Hmm, I don't see any backslashes in your text... But even if I use
> sed s/\015//g it only results in deleting the string "015" while
> leaving the carriage returns untouched (bash and csh under Linux).
>
> But the original problem was about the result of the lines in
> Garlic/Makefile.in and Dist/config.sdefault. They contained the
> apostrophes. I still presume they never removed any control characters.
>
> Wilhelm
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