[Bug-ed] Version 1.6-rc2 of GNU ed released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Version 1.6-rc2 of GNU ed is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.6-rc2.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.6-rc2.tar.lz

The md5sums are:
995bd8ed1b0ec55c9720873bd80e91ce  ed-1.6-rc2.tar.gz
0860d5f41e3e10c68a96c32d7df5ebc3  ed-1.6-rc2.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:

  * An error that prevented using NUL characters in regular expressions 
has been fixed.

  * Ed now signals an error if it can't create a shell process when 
executing a shell command.

  * All command-line options are now documented in the man page.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.