Can't get binutils to build on Cygwin

Wed Aug 2 13:57:00 GMT 2006

Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> writes:

> That might be the case, but it doesn't change the fact that users
> out there are using sed to massage binary files.  Usually this just
> isn't a problem since POSIX systems don't make a difference between
> binary and text files.

It's a problem even on POSIX hosts, since many implementations of sed have
limits on the line length.

Andreas.

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