Re: contribution: 'address' database as zsh script

[Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>]

Geoff Wing wrote:
> Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com> typed:
> :On Aug 2,  5:44am, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> :} Subject: contribution: 'address' database as zsh script
> :} here is the script I want to contribute as I mentioned [...]
> :} #   Due to a bug in the getopts builtin in zsh 3.0.5 all command line opti
> ons
> :} #   with a leading '+' do not work. Use the corresponding options with
> :} #   beginning with '-' instead.
> :Good grief.  Why didn't you mention this BEFORE 3.0.6 was released?
> :The patch in zsh-workers/3590 applies cleanly to 3.0.6 and fixes this bug.
> 
> Wow.  3590.  Talk about lost patches :-)
> 	From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> 
> 	Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:41:19 +0100 
> 	In-reply-to: "Colm Buckley"'s ... "Mon, 30 Dec 1996 12:59:14 MET."

3.1 seems to have had this fixed a different way:  at least, the code is
different and the bug didn't show up.

I've added the script to the contributions at the web site.  They could
still do with some better indexing, since it's hard to find out what's
there.

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