[m-dev.] diff: fix w3 bug reported by dougl

[Fergus Henderson]

On 07-Dec-1999, Peter Ross <petdr at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> w3/mailing-lists/Makefile:
>     Fix the bug reported by dougl that mercury-developers wasn't
>     displaying correctly.
...
>  msglist_header.inc msglist_footer.inc: message_list.html
>  	echo "May need to rearchive the hypermail archive"
> -	$(ROOT)/bin/divide "--- Cut here ---" msglist_header.inc \
> -			msglist_footer.inc < message_list.html
> +	cat message_list.html | sed -e 's/\%\"/\%\%\"/g' | 		\
> +		sed -e 's/\.\./\.\.\/\.\.\/\.\./g' |			\
> +		$(ROOT)/bin/divide "--- Cut here ---" 			\
> +			msglist_header.inc msglist_footer.inc
>  
>  msg_header.inc msg_footer.inc: message.html
>  	echo "May need to rearchive the hypermail archive"
> -	$(ROOT)/bin/divide "--- Cut here ---" msg_header.inc \
> -			msg_footer.inc < message.html
> +	cat message_list.html | sed -e 's/\%\"/\%\%\"/g' | 		\
> +		sed -e 's/\.\./\.\.\/\.\.\/\.\./g' |			\
> +		$(ROOT)/bin/divide "--- Cut here ---" msg_header.inc 	\
> +			msg_footer.inc

I think it would be a good idea to add a comment to this code
explaining the purpose of the `sed' commands.

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