Path: 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 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 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! ]