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Article #1782Re: v18i084: Zsh 2.00 - A small complaint
From: Gregory G. Woodbury
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 00:42
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. -- Gregory G. Woodbury @ The Wolves Den UNIX, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...mcnc!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw%wolves@mcnc.mcnc.org [The line eater is a boojum snark! ] <standard disclaimers apply>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mcnc!wolves!ggw From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: v18i084: Zsh 2.00 - A small complaint Summary: what system requirements! Message-ID: <1991Apr25.004233.22900@wolves.uucp> Date: 25 Apr 91 00:42:33 GMT Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Wolves Den UNIX Lines: 28 X-Checksum-Snefru: 6c300323 8e6d0793 86d0165d 867c8519