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From: evanh@sco.COM (Evan A.C. Hunt)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How many writes can sed do? (rn newsetup problem)
Message-ID: <1995@scorn.sco.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 90 02:28:05 GMT
References: <1990Jan31.224431.20355@smsc.sony.com>
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Reply-To: evanh@sco.COM (Evan A.C. Hunt)
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dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>The file newsetup contains a number of sed scripts, each of which limit
>the number of files referenced in 'w' commands to 10.  It turns out
>that on the Sony NEWS OS, sed can only use 9 different 'w' files.
>Is the number 10 common for most BSD systems, or is newsetup expecting
>too much in this case?

	SCO XENIX has the same limitation.  As I understand the
problem, sed can have 10 output files, but some implementations
count stdout as one of them.  Here's what I did to my copy to
get it to work.  (This is for patchlevel 40.)

-- cut here --
Index: newsetup.SH
6a7
> 
18d18
< # 
19a20,22
> # M001
> # Under SCO XENIX, sed will only take 9 wfiles, not 10
> 
45c48
< : NOTE: SED WILL NOT TAKE MORE THAN 10 WFILES, SO BEWARE
---
> : NOTE: SED WILL NOT TAKE MORE THAN 9 WFILES, SO BEWARE    (M001)
121,124d123
< 	-e '  d'			\\
< 	-e '}'				\\
< 	-e "/^talk\./{"			\\
< 	-e "  w /tmp/n.talk\$\$"	\\

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