Sed Script works in 3.02-1, fails in 4.0.1-1

[Dwight Neal]

I am migrating from a machine that uses a cygwin image loaded in May 2002 to
one that uses a November 2002 download, and have a sed script that fails in
the newer version:

(This should be a single line of input, but I'm sure it will wrap when
emailed):

sed -f modifyhtm.txt "\Web Configuration\Default_installing.htm"
>results\Default_installing.htm

The error reported is:

'sed: file modifyhtm.txt line 1: No previous regular expression'

The only difference I can find between the two machines (both WinXP, similar
hardware, etc) is that I have sed 4.0.1-1 on the newer one.  When I back off
to the older sed.exe, the script runs just fine.  I use about 30 other
scripts on the two machines without errors.

I am attaching cygcheck -s output from each machine (before I made any
changes to executables), and the modifyhtm.txt script.  The one caveat:  the
output from the ver 4 machine shows I had a CYGWIN environment variable set
to binmode, but this was for testing, and did not effect the outcome.

Thanks for your help,
Dwight Neal

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