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      1 The files in this directory with suffixes `.t', `.d', `.r' and `.err' are
      2 used for testing ed.  To run the tests, set the ED variable in the Makefile
      3 for the path name of the program to be tested (e.g., /bin/ed), and type
      4 `make'.  The tests do not exhaustively verify POSIX compliance.
      5 
      6 The output of the tests is written to the two files err.o and scripts.o.
      7 At the end of the tests, these files are grep'ed for error messages,
      8 which look like:
      9 	*** The script u.ed exited abnormally ***
     10 or:
     11 	*** Output u.o of script u.ed is incorrect ***
     12 
     13 It is assumed that the ed being tested processes escapes (\) in file names.
     14 This is so that a name starting with bang (!) can be read, via:
     15 	r \!file
     16 Without the escape, a POSIX ed would attempt to read the output of
     17 the shell command `file'.  If the ed being tested does not support escape
     18 processing on file names, then the script `mkscripts.sh' should be modified
     19 accordingly.
     20 
     21 The POSIX requirement that an address range not be used where at most
     22 a single address is expected has been relaxed in this version of ed.
     23 Therefore, the  following scripts  which test for compliance with this
     24 POSIX rule exit abnormally:
     25 =-err.ed
     26 a1-err.ed
     27 i1-err.ed
     28 k1-err.ed
     29 r1-err.ed
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