How to strip A NEWLINE

[Stephen M. Kennedy]

In article <1781 at seti.inria.fr>, deschamp at minos.inria.fr (Philippe Deschamp) writes:
> [sed script to remove \<new-line>]
> 	sed -e ': more
> 		/:\\$/{
> 		N
> 		s/:\\\n	*:*/:/
> 		t more
> 		}'

Anybody got any ideas on how to make this script work on input of the form

one:\
two:\
three:\
oops:\
<EOF>

Currently, the N command aborts and the script produces no output on the
last iteration; I'd like it to just act as if the last \ wasn't there.

Steve Kennedy
smk at cbosgd.att.com
smk at cbnews.att.com