thanks!

Hal J Eisen (eisen@sgi72.wwb.noaa.gov)
Mon, 3 Jun 96 10:06:56 -0400

eddy> perhaps something crazy happend when *.tcl was converted to *.c???

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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