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Short: Small but powerful Shell,KS1.2+,localized
Type: util/shell
Uploader: uj3w@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Martin Gierich)
Authors: Paul Hayter, Martin Gierich
Price: Free
Version: ZShell 2.5 (07.04.95)
Required: Nothing
For those who never read documents:
Please read at least the small chapter in the documentation called
"For Those Who Never Read The Whole Documentation".
New since V2.4:
* Localized using the catalog of the standard Shell
* Problems with foreign characters fixed
* AmigaGuide-/Multi-Viewer added
* Can open window on own screen
* 100% script compatibility (a kind of trick :)
* Several bugfixes and minor things
Features:
* Freeware, no payment required !
* Usage is similar (or better) to the standard AmigaDOS shell.
* Supports the standard housekeeping commands which are builtin,
so no disk access is necessary.
eg. list, dir, cd, assign, delete, copy, move, path, info, type
* A total of 65 builtin commands.
* About 31K small (pure assembler code, source included).
* Starting from Workbench (!) or CLI. No installation needed.
* File name completion by simply pressing TAB; shows all matches.
* Review buffer to see again what scrolled out of the window.
* Some commands and debugging features for programmers.
* Online Help function and AmigaGuide documentation with examples.
* Command line editing better than OS2.0/3.0 Shell.
* Support of OS2.0+ and OS3.0+ specific features.
* Wild cards and recursive processing.
* Real RUN and NEWCLI command that reenters ZShell quickly.
* DIR and LIST both sort (by default) and show filesizes.
* Application-Window/-Icon
* Can open window on own screen
* 100% script compatibility
* Can create and show Hard- and Softlinks.
Description:
ZShell is a small (31K), fast and powerful Shell with many (65)
builtin commands. So it replaces most of the commands in the C:
directory (like LIST, COPY etc.) what effects in saving disk space
and reducing disk accesses. There is no way around ZShell for
those who do not have a harddisk or still have Kickstart 1.2/1.3 .
But it is useful for those with a better Kickstart and/or
hard disk, too, because for example it has powerful editing &
history, file name completion, review buffer, some Kickstart
2.0/3.0 specific features and a lovely LIST command.
ZShell is inteded for shell users who do not need a script
file execution which is as complex as a programming language
(simple script execution with IF, ASK, SKIP etc. is supported).
I tried to make usage nearly like the AmigaDOS Shell with some
features known from UN*X Shells but without a confusing variety
of options ("LIST -R" and "LIST ALL" both work).
For programmers ZShell has things like showing EXEC-lists and
the task list, memory dumping and execution checking.
You can switch off the internal command-line-editor to use
ZShell with console handlers like KingCON.
Note:
This is an update to Version 1.3 on the Fish Library Disk 537 from
Paul Hayter. I (Martin) tried to ask him for permission to release
this, but he has not answered. Because it is still Freeware and the
original executable with documentation is included, I do not think
that I am doing something nasty. ( In the original distribution
there was the source code included but there was nothing stated
about changing the source. )