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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 17:03:22 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: GNU Ed v0.2 uploaded
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This is to announce that a DJGPP port of GNU Ed v0.2 has been uploaded to 
SimTel.NET mirrors:

  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/ed-02b.zip (binaries)
  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/ed-02s.zip (sources)

Ed is a (relatively) simple line editor.  Why would you care for a line 
editor these days, you ask?  Well, there are at least two reasons that I 
can think of:

	1) GNU `patch' calls `ed' for one of the possible diff formats 
(admittedly, these are seldom used).

	2) People who are interested in how operating systems in general 
and Unix in particular have developed, might take a look at how 
sophisticated might a simple line editor be (just for fun, compare it 
with LINEDIT from DOS).  `ed' was the original interactive editor 
released with the first versions of Unix (AFAIK); the GNU version is of 
course a complete rewrite, but the functionality on the outside is almost 
unchanged.


(Actually, I was unsure myself whether to upload this port, but the 
hesitation was over when I saw a message from somebody who was looking 
for a DOS port of `ed', don't ask me why.)