From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA01808 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 07:17:22 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA00267; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:12:01 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:12:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199607312111.XAA25395@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Announcement draft To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh workers list) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 23:11:12 +0200 (MET DST) Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"ImgOS3.0.44.Xmy_n"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1853 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu I'd like to announce zsh-3.0-pre5 in a few newsgroups. Here is my proposed announcement. Please tell me your opinions about that. Zoltan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Zsh version 3.0 is going to be released soon! --------------------------------------------- The latest version is zsh-3.0-pre5. It is much more stable than the last production release, zsh-2.5.0. More than a thousand bugs have been fixed since the release of zsh-2.5.0 (although none counted) and several new features were added. Everyone using zsh-2.5.0 or earlier is encouraged to upgrade. Note that some incompatible changes have been made to zsh so old scripts may have to be modified to run with zsh-3.0. For those who do not know what it is: The Z-shell, zsh is the most powerful freely available Unix command interpreter. It most resembles the Korn shell (ksh). It includes * a very powerful command-line editor which can even be used to edit files * 102 options for customizing its behavior * very powerful filename globing which can do almost everything that find can do * fully programmable completion * spelling correction * powerful substitution features which can often be used instead of cut or sed * features to make C-shell (csh) users feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh (another `custom' shell). Additionally zsh is probably one of the most portable program available for Unix. It uses GNU autoconf and it builds out of the box on most systems. Zsh can emulate the POSIX shell and the Korn shell quite well when it is invoked as sh or ksh respectively. /bin/sh can be safely linked to zsh. The latest release, the zsh FAQ and documentation is available from the following anonymous ftp sites. The first is the official archive site. The rest are mirror sites which are kept frequently up to date. The sites marked with a star may mirror ftp.math.gatech.edu instead of the primary site. HUNGARY ftp://ftp.cs.elte.hu/pub/zsh/ Australia * ftp://ftp.ips.oz.au/pub/packages/zsh/ France ftp://ftp.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr/pub/shells/zsh/ Germany ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/unix/shell/zsh/ ftp://ftp.prz.tu-berlin.de/pub/unix/shells/zsh/ * ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/shells/zsh/ Japan ftp://ftp.tohoku.ac.jp/mirror/zsh/ * ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/misc/zsh/ Norway * ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/unix/shells/zsh/ Sweden ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/zsh/ UK ftp://ftp.net.lut.ac.uk/zsh/ USA ftp://ftp.math.gatech.edu/pub/zsh/ ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/shells/zsh/ * ftp://ftp.sterling.com/zsh/ * ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/shells/zsh/ Zoltan Hidvegi Coordinator of the zsh development My PGP public key is available from the above ftp sites (in pubring.pgp), via finger -l hzoli@cs.elte.hu or from the key servers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMf/LUAupSCiLN749AQGxngP+ODNsh6ZTmILDasUJgYSDReHxSfE1bC6m I9kOh2Cmd11Rr1VY/EGvTxFhNByW8kfxsJpTcJgQtbXZTFW5f7ysFIg7GqzkfDLR vfpqVww6JsbVQ94vTjhlFROsMlDDfuiuHSUHPDIxu/V0S34UpkdoYoDJKg9qQ2my CRsesNSH8HY= =osRE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----