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> In the mail-archive:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg32760.html
> I found the following:
> 
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>   Open a DOS prompt in the LyX bin directory and type sed --version. 
>   If 
> it reports version 3.something, go to
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id=
> 16429, download sed 4.0.9 (or the latest 4.x release), and install
> that version of sed.exe over the one in the bin directory.  Then try
> running configure again.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> What is the problem with sed 3.02, which is used in Ruurds port?
> On the sed-page
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id=
> 16429 I found a version 1.4, that is newer than version 4.0.9. What's
> the difference between these versions?
> Has anybody tried the new version to configure LyX under Win98?
> 
> Thanks Uwe
> 

The problem has to do with line delimiters.  On any Win platform, the 
configure script terminates lines with CR-LF rather than LF (the Unix/Mac 
convention).  Version 3.02 of sed sees the LF as a line terminator but 
thinks the CR is a character (IIRC, it treats it as an illegal one-
character command).  Version 4.09 has no such problem.  I haven't tested 
1.4.  (Does anyone know why the number switched like that?)  For the 
moment, I'm applying the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" principle.

-- Paul

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