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From: consult@osiris.UUCP (Unix Consultation Mailbox )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: trouble installing TranScript 2.1
Keywords: sed -c ??!!?
Message-ID: <2837@osiris.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 21:02:30 GMT
Reply-To: consult@osiris.UUCP (Unix Consultation Mailbox (Phil))
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Organization: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Information Systems
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I'm trying to get TranScript up and running on our development Sun 3
systems so that we can start providing better support for documentation
and things, and have run into a little trouble with our copy of the 2.1
TranScript\(tm distribution.  I tar'ed it onto our server, ran bsd, and
ran `make programs' - it worked fine until sed complained about an
unknown option 'c'.

I checked makefiles and the like and found that the "root" makefile
contained an invocation of "sed -c".  Both Makefile/Makefile.bsd and
Makefile.sysv had the same command.  I checked all the different
manpages I could find for sed (Pyramid OSx 4.1, under both universes,
and SunOS 4.0) and can't find any reference to a -c option.

I've deleted the -c from the sed command, and the installation seemed
to go smoothly, but I'm still infinitesimally worried that the change
will cause minor problems somewhere down the road.  I guess I'd just
like to know that the change I made will not cause any repurcussions.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?  Has the 2.1 release of TranScript\(tm
changed to include my "bug fix"?  Does anyone know if there *is* such a
thing as a sed with a -c option, and if so, what that option does?  And
what about Naomi?



Phil Kos