From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:40:16 +0100 From: Thomas Koehler To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: o'reilly zsh book? Message-ID: <19990126114016.A25827@willkuere.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailing-List: 2050 On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:26:31AM +0000, Bruce Stephens wrote: [snip] > On the other hand, it would be strange to have a zsh cookbook without > something describing the basics of it. Maybe that could be compressed > a bit, so you'd say that zsh is basically like ksh, and then summarise > the extra globbing or whatever when you give examples of it (with an > index or a table somewhere pointing at where these references are). > I'm not sure how practical that would be, though: the existing concise > documentation is pretty long. It would be nice if there was a chapter about differences between zsh and bash (bash is similar to zsh, but doesn't share zsh's coolest features), and perhaps a chapter how zsh differs from tcsh (this would be rather much, I think). CU, Thomas --=20 Thomas K=F6hler Email: jean-luc@picard.franken.de <>< WWW: http://home.pages.de/~jeanluc/ IRC: jeanluc LCARS --- Linux for Computers on All Real Starships