juergen> Yes, a broken sed. Maybe you are using GNU sed-3.0 which is definitely
juergen> broken. (The regex library has some bugs.)
bingo! this was exactly my problem. i dropped in gnu sed 2.05 and
everything was fixed. thanks!
hal
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