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diff --git a/text_cmds/ed/test/README b/text_cmds/ed/test/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e360c4f --- /dev/null +++ b/text_cmds/ed/test/README @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +# $FreeBSD: src/bin/ed/test/README,v 1.7 1999/08/27 23:14:17 peter Exp $ + +The files in this directory with suffixes `.t', `.d', `.r' and `.err' are +used for testing ed. To run the tests, set the ED variable in the Makefile +for the path name of the program to be tested (e.g., /bin/ed), and type +`make'. The tests do not exhaustively verify POSIX compliance nor do +they verify correct 8-bit or long line support. + +The test file suffixes have the following meanings: +.t Template - a list of ed commands from which an ed script is + constructed +.d Data - read by an ed script +.r Result - the expected output after processing data via an ed + script. +.err Error - invalid ed commands that should generate an error + +The output of the tests is written to the two files err.o and scripts.o. +At the end of the tests, these files are grep'ed for error messages, +which look like: + *** The script u.ed exited abnormally *** +or: + *** Output u.o of script u.ed is incorrect *** + +The POSIX requirement that an address range not be used where at most +a single address is expected has been relaxed in this version of ed. +Therefore, the following scripts which test for compliance with this +POSIX rule exit abnormally: +=-err.ed +a1-err.ed +i1-err.ed +k1-err.ed +r1-err.ed |