From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22050 invoked from network); 2 Aug 1999 07:34:33 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Aug 1999 07:34:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 15014 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 1999 07:33:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7337 Received: (qmail 15006 invoked from network); 2 Aug 1999 07:33:04 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <990802073253.ZM995@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 07:32:53 +0000 In-Reply-To: <19990802054431.A460@hp.com> Comments: In reply to Dominik Vogt "contribution: 'address' database as zsh script" (Aug 2, 5:44am) References: <19990802054431.A460@hp.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Dominik Vogt , zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: contribution: 'address' database as zsh script MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Aug 2, 5:44am, Dominik Vogt wrote: } Subject: contribution: 'address' database as zsh script } } It's a self contained address book and runs with only } zsh (3.0.5) and sed. My first thought upon seeing this was that it could be updated to use associative arrays for 3.1.6. My second thought (after squawking about the getopts bug) was that one could then define little here-document templates to output the records. My third thought was that I'd have then re-implemented Perl of pre-2.0 vintage, at which point I decided I'd better stop thinking. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com