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From: klaus@cnix.uucp (klaus u schallhorn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: does a zgrep exist? (zgrep <> zcat | grep)
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.200500.4275@cnix.uucp>
Date: 26 Feb 91 20:05:00 GMT
References: <194@univaq.sublink.org> <MELBY.91Feb21025907@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP> <708@bcstec.boeing.com>
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In article <708@bcstec.boeing.com> saddler@bcstec.boeing.com (Ray Saddler) writes:
>--- Following this trend you'll have a z<everything> ... sort of like
>--- r<everything> (rsh, rcp ...).
>--
>--Why rule out some nifty programs such as zsh, ...
>-
>-You forgot zftp (just don't forget to set binary mode, or nothing will
>-work... :-) )
>-
>-(Disclaimer:  If zftp happens to exist, ignore the above comment.)
>-
>
>I prefer to use zlogin, entering /usr/local/bin/zsh.  Then, EVERYTHING is run
>in a compressed mode.

Aren't you overlooking the risk of zburying your zkeyboard under 
a pile of conventional desk clutter? You'd never zfind that again. 
You'd be truly buggered. No 'Z'.

klaus schallhorn
-- 
George Orwell was an Optimist