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SED bug

#426
From: Tapani Tarvainen
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1989 19:21
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The y-command doesn't seem to work with Gnu SED 1.02: e.g.,

echo a | sed 'y/a/A/'

complains "extra characters after command".  I tried it under
SunOS 4.0 and MS-DOS with identical results.

Is 1.02 the latest release, and if not, where could a newer one
be found?  (I just might try fixing this myself.)

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Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: SED bug
Summary: y-command doesn't work
Message-ID: <1311@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 17 Sep 89 19:21:07 GMT
References: <8909121817.AA11159@gem> <1309@tukki.jyu.fi>
Reply-To: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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