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> 
> I do this...
> 
> sed "s/handbook.xml\?/handbook.xml\%3F/" handbook.xml > handbook.html
> 
> 
> and sed really converts the string to "handbook.xml??"
> 
> Where is the extra "?" coming from??
> 
> Alternately, I tried sed "s/handbook.xml\?part/handbook.xml\%3Fpart/"
> handbook.xml > handbook.html and that seems to work OK (for those
> lines that actually have "part" in them).

Weird it works for me.  Try:

sed 's/handbook.xml[?]/\handbook.xml\%3F/'

(single quotes, and the brackets isolate the ?)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft


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