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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!theos.com!deraadt From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD cmd line editor / text editor recommends? Date: 18 Jun 1996 06:36:02 GMT Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <DERAADT.96Jun18003603@zeus.theos.com> References: <4psnen$p9h@hermes.athenet.net> <87g27wffhr.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <31C5EFAC.237C228A@a.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.theos.com In-reply-to: "Paul M. Newhouse"'s message of Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:52:12 +0000 In article <31C5EFAC.237C228A@a.crl.com> "Paul M. Newhouse" <pimin@a.crl.com> writes: > zsh is ideal. First of all it is 100% bourne shell compatible ... > ... it is also 100% ksh compatible I didn't see this in the ports or packages for Free or Net BSD. Where does one find zsh. It is in the FreeBSD ports package as shells/zsh It says: Zsh - the Z shell, version 2.6 beta 17 (I, an OpenBSD-kinda-guy, am mentioning this because the FreeBSD ports system also builds under OpenBSD. So it is available as a ports thing under a NetBSD-like operating system too. :-) The ports infrastructure is a pretty nifty way of populating /usr/local -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@theos.com