Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|    From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|    Date: 11 Aug 2000 20:11:25 +0200
|
|    I saw the earlier thread (on the autoconf list) on this topic where
|    someone found that `?' and \| were not portable.  Has anyone found a
|    system on which \{m,n\} is not portable?
|
| Most likely, seds that don't support ? and \| also don't support
| \{m,n\}, as I recall that those features were introduced to USG Unix
| at about the same time.  Unix Version 7 didn't have them.

Thanks, but if no one can point to an actual system for which
sed's \{m,n\} doesn't work, I'm going to document it as portable.

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