Re: [Fwd: Version 0.3-pre1 of GNU ed released]

[Eric Blake]

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According to John Cowan on 10/6/2006 2:00 PM:
> Antonio Diaz Diaz scripsit:
> 
>> I am the new maintainer of GNU ed. Karl Berry told me to announce here 
>> the release of ed-0.3-pre1. Ed has got now its own mail list 
>> address@hidden From now the test releases will be announced there.
> 
> I look forward to testing this and possibly making some contributions.
> Please change the name of aux.c; for stupid DOS reasons, Windows (and
> therefore Cygwin) is allergic to files named "aux" in any letter case
> and with any extension, so the tarball cannot even be unpacked.

At least on cygwin, you can use a managed mount in order to unpack the
tarball, but yes this is a bug in the package that should be fixed for the
sake of other Windows ports.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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