ASCII 0x2D is a hyphen, but ed doesn't actually escape it (on GNU/Linux either). Commenting out the cleanup code shows that the created file has the literal name "\x2dhyphen\x2dprefixed\x2dfile", which is illegal on Windows (as it contains a backslash).
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 1:01 PM Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Developers, > > testing ed-1.19... > *** The script /pub/devel/ed/tmp/ed-1.19/testsuite/w.ed exited > abnormally *** > tests failed. > > the full content of tmp is > > $ cat /pub/devel/ed/tmp/ed-1.19/tmp/w.log > \x2dhyphen\x2dprefixed\x2dfile: No such file or directory > > > I am not familiar with this escape "\x2dhyphen\x2dprefixed\x2dfile" > what is the expectation on Unix system ? > > > Regards > Marco > > ed packager for Cygwin > > >
