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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Sed 3.02.80 uploaded
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-:    If you inspect the sed302b.zip
-:    package you will find a second sed binary called gsed.exe.
-:    That one is the out-of-the-box compiled sed binary. That sed
-:    program has been compiled with GNU regex and that binary must
-:    be compared with the sed binary from sed3028b.zip.
-:    The sed.exe from sed302b.zip has been created by Eli using
-:    the regex functions from DJGPP 2.03.

Thank you for the explanation.  Although I expect GNU regex to (often)
result in a slower sed (per Eli's readme from sed302b.zip), evidently
the GNU regex lib makes little difference to the executable size:

% unzip -l 3.02/sed302b.zip | grep sed.exe
    98304  04-20-00 02:03   bin/sed.exe
    97792  04-20-00 02:03   bin/gsed.exe

% unzip -l 3.02.80/sed3028b.zip | grep sed.exe
   682752  07-22-01 02:03   bin/sed.exe

The NLS support must be the culprit, here.

BTW, is GNU regexp lib released/supported independently of sed
(i.e., could it be built and linked with other applications)?
That could be useful....