[Bug-ed] Version 1.8-rc1 of GNU ed released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Version 1.8-rc1 of GNU ed is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.8-rc1.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.8-rc1.tar.lz

The md5sums are:
ba5b99baaea052524cf2efc7efa6f4d9  ed-1.8-rc1.tar.gz
69651dffb88c52abb7954eb96ea571ef  ed-1.8-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:

  * Ed now stops reading stdin when reaching real End Of File the first 
time. (Before it needed to reach EOF twice).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.