James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>   The FTP link to ed-0.8.tar.gz is dead.  All that is available in that 
> directory is >=1.0.  Is there any reason not to use version 1.4?

To answer your question with a question:  Is there any reason to use ed?

The answer is to satisfy a build requirement of some ancient package. 
If the new version will satisfy that package's requirement, then yes, 
it's OK.

Doing a quick grep of the book, the only references I can see are tetex 
and Xorg libraries.  Taking a look at Xorg libraries, a quick check 
indicates that sed is now being used and not ed, so ed there may just be 
  a holdover from xfree86.

BTW, the version of ed in BLFS svn 1.4.  You shouldn't be using the 
"stable" version.  It's just too far out of date.

   -- Bruce

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