[Bug-ed] Version 1.6-rc1 of GNU ed released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Version 1.6-rc1 of GNU ed is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.6-rc1.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.6-rc1.tar.lz

The md5sums are:
d9b0358a9f28e543dfdefc0605258c06  ed-1.6-rc1.tar.gz
f7c3436556ea0f0293fae0211137f8ab  ed-1.6-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:

  * Displaying of null characters by the "l" command has been fixed.

  * The condition deciding when to show the message "Newline appended" 
has been corrected.

  * The "modified" flag is now set when reading a non-empty file into 
an empty buffer.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.