Re: MinGW issue

[Brad]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:36:53PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 
> >It is worth noting that my Cygwin environment uses sed 4.0.9 while the 
> >MinGW environment uses sed 3.02.  Since the failing tests pass under 
> >Cygwin, it seems possible that sed 4.0.9 will accept a command that 3.02 
> >rejects.
> 
> 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
> 
> And my Solaris system (also with sed 3.02 since I proved to myself 
> that it was better than sed 4.X):
> 
> % echo hello | sed -e 1iEXPORTS
> sed: -e expression #1, char 3: Extra characters after command

OpenBSD..

$ echo hello | sed -e 1iEXPORTS
sed: 1: "1iEXPORTS": command i expects \ followed by text
$ uname -sr
OpenBSD 3.6