Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Non-root installation of ethereal on Solaris system

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:29:15 +0200
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:55:00AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> ...or make sure "/usr/xpg4/bin" is in your path before "/usr/bin" (and, 
> if "/bin" is in your path, before "/bin" as well); "/usr/xpg4/bin/sed" 
> doesn't have the problems that "/usr/bin/sed" has.

Oh, one thing I wondered about maybe a week ago: why we don't just do the
following (Solaris only)

Check whether sed is GNU sed - if so, done
Check whether /usr/xpg4/bin/sed exists -if so Set SED=/usr/xpg4/bin/sed, done
Error out

Comments?

 ciao
  Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
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