Re: Found bug in Version Sed 3.0.2.8a for windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Francois Tessier wrote:

> I am not able to run sed when the current path gets a little big long :
>  
> it works well with 
> C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Spm\Aci\ACICWN~1\html\ACICWN~2.APR\cards\Card-0\>sed ...
>  
> but does not work with 
> C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Spm\Aci\ACICWN~1\html\ACICWN~2.APR\cards\Card-0\Views>sed 
> ...
>  
> I get : "The system cannot execute the specified program" 

This is not a problem with the ported Sed, but rather with the way 
Windows 2000 treats (or should I say mistreats) DJGPP programs.

Sorry, there's nothing that we can do to remedy this problem.  Try to 
avoid deeply nested directories as a work-around.