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- Short: Small but powerful Shell; now OS2.0+ features supported
- Type: util/shell
- Uploader: uj3w@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Martin Gierich)
- Version: ZShell V2.4 (26.02.95)
- Authors: Paul Hayter & Martin Gierich
- Requirements: Any Amiga
-
- 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".
-
- 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 30K small (pure assembler code, source included).
- * Starting from Workbench (!) or CLI. No installation needed.
- * Filenamecompletion 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.
- * Command line editing better than OS2.0 Shell.
- * Support of OS2.0+ and OS3.0+ specific features.
- * DIR and LIST both sort (by default) and show filesizes.
- * Wild cards and recursive processing.
- * Makes itself resident for quicker starting and memory saving.
- * Real (!) RUN and NEWCLI command that reenters ZShell quickly.
- * Application-Window/-Icon
- * Simple 'MORE' type text viewer.
- * Online Help function and AmigaGuide documentation with examples.
- * Can create and show Hard- and Softlinks.
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-
- ZShell is a small (30K), 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 .
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- But it is useful for those with a better Kickstart and/or
- harddisk, too, because for example it has powerful editing &
- history, filenamecompletion, 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, execution checking and removing tasks.
-
- You can switch off the internal command-line-editor to use
- ZShell with console handlers like KingCON.
-
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- New since V2.2:
- Support of OS2.0+ specific stuff (MALELINK, MAKEICON,
- ASSIGN ADD, Application-Window etc.).
- Totally rewrote PATH, COPY, DELETE, PROTECT, MOVE and JOIN.
- Bugfixes.
-
- 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. )
-