On 08/28/10 15:34, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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 It's just too far out of date. > Interesting. I thought that I had SVN open, but it appears that I have the stable version. How, I managed that is something that I am not clear on.
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