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Old 11-14-2008
Delete lines between two patterns without deleting the second pattern

I want to delete lines like this
Code:
sed '/FROM_HERE/,/TO_HERE/d'

but I would like to *not* delete the second match, i.e. the TO_HERE line. How can I achieve this?
Thank you!
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Old 11-14-2008
Code:
sed '/FROM_HERE/,/TO_HERE/{//p;d;}'

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