Re: [ProgSoc] Asking for help from the sed heads

[Telford Tendys <telford@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

>  My first thoughts were that sed is the most elementary
> > therefore most likely to be available. Is that sensible?
> 
> Not really, sed is unix (probably a port exists somewhere to dos/windows),
> but Perl is really quite portable - everything apart from the first line
> in a script (shebang) - if the script need not be executable, the
> scriptwill probably be completely portavle.

Hmph, I finally decided to go with perl. Firstly since I now
have a neato script that does what I want and secondly because I
decided to use another perl script to do automatic documentation
extraction (nothing outrageously fancy but at least it keeps the
texi documentation for each function close to the C-code for each
function so that I make some effort to keep it up to date.

I'm not making the scripts executable but I'm using

perl <scriptname> infile > outfile

and I just got it working on the Win95 box today, using the
perl that comes with DJGPP.

Thanks for those who helped,
I should be at the meeting tomorrow night (hopefully).

	- Tel

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