zsh2.00.01 available

[Paul Falstad]

zsh2.00.01 is now available for anonymous FTP from princeton.edu
(128.112.12.1) as "/pub/zsh/zsh2.00.01.tar.Z".  There is a set of patches
at "/pub/zsh/zsh00-01.patch.Z".  The patches may also appear on
comp.sources.misc soon.

Here is part of the README for zsh 2.00.01:

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zsh is free software.  See the file COPYING for copying permission.

This is zsh 2.00.01.

To get this shell running, cd into the src directory and type
"buildzsh".  I tested it on the following machines, where it compiled
just by running this script:

Sun SPARCServer 4/490 running SunOS 4.1.1
Sun 3/60C running SunOS 4.1.1
NeXTstation running Mach 2.0
SGI-4D/25 running IRIX 3.3.1
hp9000 running BSD 4.3
DECSystem-5000 running ULTRIX 4.0

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Modification history:

00-01:
   - %M and %m now work as documented.
   - bad things no longer happen if COLUMNS is set to 0
   - SH_WORD_SPLIT and ${=foo} now work
   - the default value of WORDCHARS includes more characters
   - if the cursor is at the end of the line, vi-cmd-mode
     moves it back one position.
   - delete-char now acts more like x in vi.
   - a "prompt" parameter has been added, which is equivalent to
     PROMPT and PS1.
   - zsh no longer expands symbolic links.  The CHASELINKS option
     has been provided to get the old behavior.
   - history searches ignore lines that are the same as the line
     in the buffer.
   - you can get a literal ! in your prompt now with \!.
   - -z, -n, and != in [[ ... ]] expressions work.
   - the shell no longer hangs when inputting "[[ ]\n"
   - the "menu-complete" and "menu-expand-or-complete" bindings have
     been added.
   - menu-complete no longer beeps.
   - reverse-menu-complete no longer dumps core if it gets called before
     a normal completion.
   - typeahead lines are no longer thrown away on machines with sgttyb.
   - !foo no longer matches lines with 'foo' in them (not at the beginning)
   - kill -9 % no longer kills the shell
   - no longer sources .zshrc from shell scripts or with -c
   - no longer needs limits.h, strtol
   - exporting HOSTTYPE, etc. works
   - fixed serious bugs related to . in path
   - numbers in weird bases now work

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Paul Falstad, pfalstad at phoenix.princeton.edu | 10 PRINT "PRINCETON CS"
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