From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4423 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2001 09:03:36 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Mar 2001 09:03:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 14649 invoked by alias); 20 Mar 2001 09:03:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13672 Received: (qmail 14634 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2001 09:03:26 -0000 Message-ID: <009f01c0b11c$6918d690$b90806c0@wipro.com> From: "vipin aravind" To: Subject: Zshell for win32 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:31:50 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_009C_01C0B14A.80B73340" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_009C_01C0B14A.80B73340 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi all, I know this is not the place to put up something on win32. It becomes necessary for me to get the suggestions on it before I embark on the port. Find enclosed a pre-mature features list for the shell I name Zshell32. thank you vipin ------=_NextPart_000_009C_01C0B14A.80B73340 Content-Type: text/plain; name="features.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="features.txt" Zshell32:- This is going to be a port of unix open source shell(Zshell) The idea of the port is to evolve an open source shell for native win32. It will be based heavily on Zshell(3.1.9 or 4.0.1). Future versions of Zshell32 will be based on the Zshell port of 3.1.9 or 4.0.1 and not on = future=20 versions of zshell.This is important for Zshell32 to evolve in win32. Feature List for Zshell32:- Iam not optimistic in getting an exact port of zshell for native = win32. Ofcourse zshell can be compiled and run in the cygwin environment. But the goal here isto provide a shell based on Zshell for native = win32 similar to existing cmd.exe and other commercial shells like = 4nt,4dos. Certain factors like NO forking in win32 puts a severe limit on the=20 port. Features that won't be supported:- 1) No ksh and Bourne shell emulation. Instead provide cmd emulation and provide the necessary entry = points to emulate any other shells for win32. 2) First release will support no extra modules and multilanguage = support. Features that will be supported:- 1) All the current Zshell programming syntax. 2) similar startup scripts as in unix. Iam yet to draw up a TODO list. I will be needing lot of help from all of you after I come up with the = TODO list ------=_NextPart_000_009C_01C0B14A.80B73340--