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      1 ed is a POSIX-compliant line editor.  It should work with any regular
      2 expression package that conforms to the POSIX interface standard, such as
      3 GNU regex(3).
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      5 The following compiler directives are recognized:
      6 GNU_REGEX	- use with GNU regex(3)
      7 DES		- use to add encryption support (requires crypt(3))
      8 NO_REALLOC_NULL	- use if realloc(3) does not accept a NULL pointer
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     10 The file `ed-1003.2' in the ./doc directory describes POSIX ed.  Extensions
     11 to the POSIX standard are described in the file `extensions.'
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     13 The ./test directory contains regression tests for ed. The README
     14 file in that directory explains how to run these.
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     16 For a description of the ed algorithm, see Kernighan and Pike's book
     17 "Software Tools in Pascal," Addison-Wesley, 1981.
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