From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16641 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2000 18:47:07 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Mar 2000 18:47:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 5614 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2000 18:46:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2951 Received: (qmail 5607 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2000 18:46:52 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Bruce Stephens" , Subject: RE: ksh93 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 21:46:48 +0300 Message-ID: <000801bf879c$5439df30$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <87bt4uqwmo.fsf_-_@cenderis.demon.co.uk> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 > > Not that I'm suggesting zsh isn't better---the completion that zsh is > clearly better, but having this available ought to make compatibility > easier to ensure. >>From ksh93 release: KSH-93 uses a hierarchal name space for variables. Compound variables can be defined and variables can be passed by reference. In addition, each variable can have one or more disciplines associated with it to intercept assignments and references. (I just thought about it. Pasing by reference should make real difference in speed. I believe, completion functions pass large amount of read-only information around) KSH-93 can be extended by adding built-in commands at run time. In addition, KSH-93 can be used as a library that can be embedded into an application to allow scripting. (Sometimes I wish ZSH globbing and/or completion library.) -andrej Have a nice DOS! B >>