heirloom-ed is a version of the standard text editor derived from the original UNIX source code released by Caldera and Sun and collected under The Heirloom Toolchest project's umbrella. This SlackBuild will by default install ed under name heirloom-ed in order to neither conflict with GNU ed as supplied by Slackware nor use PATH overrides created by other heirloom SlackBuilds. If you pass ALLEDS=yes to the script, additional variants of ed will be built correspoding to various Unices. They will be installed under names such as heirloom-ed_sus. If you pass STATIC=yes, the resulting binaries will not be dynamically linked (not that there's much to link against beyond libc).