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From: dkk@athena.mit.edu (David K Krikorian)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: trouble installing TranScript 2.1
Summary: Nil
Keywords: sed -c ??!!?
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Date: 10 Feb 89 02:42:05 GMT
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In article <2837@osiris.UUCP> consult@osiris.UUCP (Unix Consultation Mailbox (Phil)) writes:
>  ...
>I checked makefiles and the like and found that the "root" makefile
>contained an invocation of "sed -c".
>  ...
>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?

According to our sources for sed (BSD 85/06/19) the only options are
n, f, e and g.  The 'g' option is not documented in our man pages, so
I don't know what it does.