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[Eric Berge]

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	I was wondering if this is a chronic problem with sed.  It
seems that I cannot get sed to match patterns with an imbedded newline.
I have talked to some other avid users of sed and they seem to have
the same problem.  According to the documentation, the sequence '\n'
will match a newline imbedded in a string.  So this is what I tried:

	I wanted to match:

		.ul
		followed by anything on the next line

	and convert it to

		\fIfollowed by anything on the next line\fR

	so I tried:

		sed 's/^\.ul\n\(.*\)$/\\fI\1\\fR/'

	I even tried simple examples to try to get it to work, but to
no avail.  Can anyone help me out?

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	Eric Berge

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