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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How many writes can sed do? (rn newsetup problem)
Message-ID: <1990Feb3.172248.4798@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 3 Feb 90 17:22:48 GMT
References: <1990Jan31.224431.20355@smsc.sony.com> <1990Feb1.122550.8071@pds3> <290@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <290@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>This problem should have been fixed in rn/rrn PL 41.
>If you are running PL 40 (or worse), upgrade to PL 44.

This is still broken in PL44 as far as I can tell.

The bug is subtle.  Most people expect sed to handle 10 or more
distinct filenames in w commands.  The problem is that some versions
of sed, apparently those based on System III, but I can't be positive,
only handle 9.

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