[m-dev.] for review: document DEC sed fixed limit

[Simon Taylor]

Estimated hours taken: 0.1

.README.in:
README.OSF1:
	Document that the sed utility supplied with OSF/1 can't handle
	the Mercury autoconfiguration script.


Index: .README.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/staff/zs/imp/mercury/.README.in,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -u -r1.9 .README.in
--- .README.in	1999/03/21 15:46:58	1.9
+++ .README.in	1999/11/10 00:31:41
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
 	README.Linux-PPC	Linux on PowerPC
 	README.MS-Windows	Microsoft Windows
 	README.HPUX		HPPA systems running HPUX
+	README.OSF1		DEC Alpha systems running OSF/1 version 3.x
 
 The documentation sources are in the `doc' subdirectory.  The installation
 process will install INFO, HTML, and DVI versions in the locations specified
Index: README.OSF1
===================================================================
RCS file: README.OSF1
diff -N README.OSF1
--- /dev/null	Wed Nov 10 11:26:04 1999
+++ README.OSF1	Wed Nov 10 11:44:50 1999
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+The sed utility supplied with DEC OSF/1 V3.2 has a fixed limit
+which causes the Mercury autoconfiguration script to fail with a
+message such as:
+"sed: There are too many commands for the
+	s%@READLINE_LIBRARIES@%-lreadline -ltermcap%g function."
+
+The work-around is to install GNU sed.
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