sed long lines bug?

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Subject: sed long lines bug?
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Gnu sed is generally advertised to have no input line length limit up to
what can be malloc'd, but the enclosed uu-encoded gzip'd tar file documents
an apparent problem with a string replacement on a 200000-byte line that
succeeds on a similar 100000-byte line.  The failure occurs with GNU sed
version 3.02 on several Linux systems on Intel PCs.

Any ideas on what is going on?

Thanks,

-- Dave Slate

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