------------------------ META-FAQ for the Z Shell ------------------------ The latest version of this META-FAQ can be found at any of the FTP sites listed below. Author ------ Zsh was originally written by Paul Falstad . Zsh is now maintained by the members of the zsh-workers mailing list . The development is currently coordinated by Peter Stephenson . The coordinator can be contacted at , but matters relating to the code should generally go to the mailing list. Availability ------------ Zsh is available from the following anonymous FTP sites. These mirror sites are kept frequently up to date. The sites marked with (H) may be mirroring ftp.cs.elte.hu instead of the primary site. Primary site ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/zsh/ http://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh/ Australia ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/zsh/ http://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh/ ftp://ftp.ips.gov.au/pub/packages/zsh/ (H) Denmark ftp://sunsite.dk/pub/unix/shells/zsh/ Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/shells/zsh/ France ftp://ftp.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr/shells/zsh/ Germany ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/shells/zsh/ (H) ftp://ftp.gmd.de/packages/zsh/ ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/unix/shell/zsh/ Hungary ftp://ftp.cs.elte.hu/pub/zsh/ http://www.cs.elte.hu/pub/zsh/ ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/packages/zsh/ Israel ftp://ftp.math.technion.ac.il/pub/zsh/ http://www.math.technion.ac.il/pub/zsh/ Italy ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/Unix/pkgs/shell/zsh/ Japan ftp://ftp.nisiq.net/pub/shells/zsh/ (H) ftp://ftp.win.ne.jp/pub/shell/zsh/ Norway ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/unix/shells/zsh/ Poland ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/shells/zsh/ Romania ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.zsh.org/pub/zsh/ ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.zsh.org/pub/zsh/ Slovenia ftp://ftp.siol.net/mirrors/zsh/ Sweden ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/zsh/ UK ftp://ftp.net.lut.ac.uk/zsh/ ftp://sunsite.org.uk/packages/zsh/ USA ftp://uiarchive.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/shells/zsh/ ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/shells/zsh/ ftp://foad.org/pub/zsh/ http://foad.org/zsh/ Mailing Lists ------------- Zsh has 3 mailing lists: Announcements about releases, major changes in the shell and the monthly posting of the Zsh FAQ. (moderated) User discussions. Hacking, development, bug reports and patches. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send mail to the associated administrative address for the mailing list. YOU ONLY NEED TO JOIN ONE OF THE MAILING LISTS AS THEY ARE NESTED. All submissions to zsh-announce are automatically forwarded to zsh-users. All submissions to zsh-users are automatically forwarded to zsh-workers. If you have problems subscribing/unsubscribing to any of the mailing lists, send mail to . The mailing lists are maintained by Karsten Thygesen . The mailing lists are archived; the archives can be accessed via the administrative addresses listed above. There is also a hypertext archive, maintained by Geoff Wing , available at http://www.zsh.org/mla/. The Zsh FAQ ----------- Zsh has a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), maintained by Peter Stephenson . It is regularly posted to the newsgroup comp.unix.shell and the zsh-announce mailing list. The latest version can be found at any of the Zsh FTP sites, or at http://www.zsh.org/FAQ/. The contact address for FAQ-related matters is . The Zsh Web Page ---------------- Zsh has a web page which is located at http://www.zsh.org/. This is maintained by Karsten Thygesen , of SunSITE Denmark. The contact address for web-related matters is . The Zsh Userguide ----------------- A userguide is currently in preparation. It is intended to complement the manual, with explanations and hints on issues where the manual can be cabbalistic, hierographic, or downright mystifying (for example, the word `hierographic' does not exist). It can be viewed in its current state at http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Guide/. At the time of writing, chapters dealing with startup files and their contents and the new completion system were essentially complete.