Re: MinGW issue

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> And this is confirmed:
>
> Cygwin:
>
> % echo hello | sed -e 1iEXPORTS
> EXPORTS
> hello
>
> MinGW:
>
> $ echo hello | sed -e 1iEXPORTS
> sed: -e expression #2, char 3: Extra characters after command

I found this in the sed FAQ at 
http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/~george/sed/OLD/sedfaq.html:

   GNU sed v3.02a
   Now a,i,c commands can accept a string after them.

So the capability to support this syntax was added to GNU sed after 
the 3.02 release.  Solaris sed does not support this syntax.

Bob
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