This is Debian GNU's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU ed
utility.  The classic unix line editor, ed is a line-oriented text
editor.  It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise
manipulate text files.

This package was put together by me, James Troup <james@nocrew.org>,
from the GNU sources, which I obtained from
src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/gnu/ed-0.2.tar.gz.  The changes were small:

o adding support for the Debian package maintenance scheme, by adding
  various debian/* files.
o buf.c (open_sbuf): use tmpfile() and not mktemp().
o glbl.c (exec_global), io.c (read_stream, get_stream_line), main.c
  (main, exec_command, get_matching_node_addr, strip_escapes), re.c
  (get_compiled_pattern), sub.c (extract_subst_template, 
  substitute_matching_text): parentheses to quiet -Wall.
o ed.1: various fixes by Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>

Program Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Andrew Moore, Talke Studio. All
Rights Reserved.  
Modifications for Debian Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000 James Troup.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
your Debian GNU system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with the
Debian GNU ed source package as the file COPYING.  If not, write
to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite
330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Manual (ed.info) Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to process this file through TeX and print the
results, provided the printed document carries copying permission
notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
(this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual).

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire
resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions,
except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved
by the Foundation.