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Bug#60253: More clearly



On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:53:11PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Depends on 'ed' because it's used in various scripts.  (Read
> > /usr/sbin/texconfig.)
> 
> Well, okay, but can't another utility be used for those purposes? Not that
> ed is large or bad, it's just not Essential: yes so the dependency seems
> redundant, having sed or grep.

Try rewriting the ed command in setup_dvips_paper using sed or grep ;-)

Besides, why rewrite working upstream code?

   Julian

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