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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com>
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Hello!

According to the re_format's manpage, the following

	echo aXbXccc | sed 's/X.*/X/2'

must result in aXbX -- the second occurence of X.* to be replaced
by X itself.

Yet, it results in aXbXccc -- no changes. To the best of my
understanding of re_format, ``X.*'' is a perfectly valid regular
expression, matching anything that starts with ``X''...

Thanks for any hints.

	-mi

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