Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Just to make sure I don't make any stupid last minute error > here's the complete change that resulted from this. > Maybe somebody finds the time to look over this... I gave everything a test run, seems to work. GNU-sed 4.1.2. Out of curiosity, I've tried solaris 5.6 sed of 1997 and AIX 5.2 sed, and they accepted it too. Cheers, Udo