s/A*./B/g editor bug?

[Mikael Pettersson]

In article <741 at ccssrv.UUCP> perry at ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) writes:
>In article <3522 at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> bink at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (9704) writes:

[describes a bug in ed: s/b*a/c/g maps `aaaa' to `caca' instead of `cccc']

>Anyone care to try it out on a 2bsd or a V7 system?

On our pdp11 (2.10bsd), ed produces the incorrect result (caca) while
sed does the right thing (cccc).
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Mikael Pettersson, Dept of Comp & Info Sci, University of Linkoping, Sweden
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