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Re: v18i084: Zsh 2.00 - A small complaint

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From: Gregory G. Woodbury
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 00:42
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I appreciate the effort put into Zsh, but there is one small complaint
that I have.

The package is BSD/SUN specific!

There is NO indication in the headers or READMEs or anywhere that the
package requires specific facilities in BSD/SUN Unix'en.

I went to the effort to get on my internet account and FTP the package,
and to transfer it via modem to my 88000/System V site and unpack it and
start to play with it.....

Only to discover that there are extreme dependencies on BSD and SUN/OS
type information in the thing.

Specifically, the references to <sys/resources.h> is not portable, and
its very difficult to make anything that really uses the winsize
structure really portable.

Oh Well.

Another tool that I went and poked at only to discover that there are
critical non-portable dependencies not noted in the announcement.
-- 
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From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury)
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Subject: Re: v18i084: Zsh 2.00 - A small complaint
Summary: what system requirements!
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Date: 25 Apr 91 00:42:33 GMT
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