[Bug-ed] Version 1.5-rc1 of GNU ed released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Version 1.5-rc1 of GNU ed is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.5-rc1.tar.gz  (92 kB)
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.5-rc1.tar.lz  (66 kB)

The md5sums are:
e81ae30c0555e37c14d14b0a6006cd28  ed-1.5-rc1.tar.gz
2cc2ee2a6067673b44ced09b04438e5e  ed-1.5-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant implementation of 
the standard Unix line editor.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html

This version is also available in lzip format. If your distro doesn't 
yet distribute the lzip program, you can download it from 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * The new option `--restricted' has been added.

  * "red" has been converted to a script invoking `ed --restricted'.

  * Description of ed in the manual has been changed.

  * Minor changes to the code have been made to allow compilation with 
some c89 compilers.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.