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Name: zsh - Yet another command interpreter

Version: 3.0.4, 3.0.5-test2, and 3.1.2beta

Author(s): Paul Falstad
           Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu> (current coordinator)
           Current maintainers <zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu>
           with help from many other folks; see Etc/CONTRIBUTORS for a list

           Please send bug reports to the zsh-workers list, not to
           Zoltan Hidvegi.

Ftp source: ftp.cs.elte.hu:/pub/zsh/         (master, fast in Europe)
            ftp.math.gatech.edu:/pub/zsh/    (suggested for US)
Web page: http://www.peak.org/zsh/

Description:

    Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard
    shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh); it's compatibility
    with the 1988 Korn shell has been gradually increasing. It
    includes enhancements of many types, notably in the command-line
    editor, options for customising its behaviour, filename globbing,
    features to make C-shell (csh) users feel more at home and extra
    features drawn from tcsh (another `custom' shell).

    For more information, the files Doc/intro.txt or Doc/intro.troff
    included with the source distribution are highly recommended. A
    list of features is given in FEATURES, also with the source.

    Here are some things that zsh is particularly good at. No claim
    of exclusivity is made, especially as shells copy one another,
    though in the areas of command line editing and globbing zsh is
    well ahead of the competition. I am not aware of a major
    interactive feature in any other freely-available shell which zsh
    does not also have (except smallness).

    Command line editing:
    
        o  programmable completion: incorporates the ability to use
            the full power of zsh globbing (compctl -g)
        o  multi-line commands editable as a single buffer (even files!)
        o  variable editing (vared)
        o  command buffer stack
        o  print text straight into the buffer for immediate editing (print -z)
        o  execution of unbound commands
        o  menu completion
        o  variable, editing function and option name completion
        o  inline expansion of variables, history commands
    
    Globbing --- extremely powerful, including:
    
        o  recursive globbing (cf. find),
        o  file attribute qualifiers (size, type, etc. also cf. find),
        o  full alternation and negation of patterns.
    
    Handling of multiple redirections (simpler than tee)
    Large number of options for tailoring
    Path expansion (=foo -> /usr/bin/foo)
    Adaptable messages for spelling, watch, time as well as prompt
    Named directories
    Comprehensive integer arithmetic
    Manipulation of arrays (including reverse subscripting)
    Spelling correction

    -- Adapted from the zsh FAQ version 3.1.2.3

Advertised architectures:

    From version 3.0, zsh uses GNU autoconf as the installation
    mechanism. This considerably increases flexibility over the old
    `buildzsh' mechanism.  Consequently, zsh should compile and run on
    any modern version of UNIX, and a great many not-so-modern versions
    too. The file Etc/MACHINES in the distribution has more details.
    
    -- Adapted from the zsh FAQ version 3.1.2.3

Prerequisites:

   C compiler