1------------------------ 2META-FAQ for the Z Shell 3------------------------ 4 5The latest version of this META-FAQ can be found at any of the FTP sites 6listed below. 7 8Author 9------ 10 11Zsh was originally written by Paul Falstad <pf@zsh.org>. 12Zsh is now maintained by the members of the zsh-workers mailing 13list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>. The development is currently 14coordinated by Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org>. The coordinator 15can be contacted at <coordinator@zsh.org>, but matters relating to 16the code should generally go to the mailing list. 17 18Availability 19------------ 20 21Zsh is available from the following anonymous FTP sites. These mirror 22sites are kept frequently up to date. The sites marked with (H) may be 23mirroring ftp.cs.elte.hu instead of the primary site. 24 25 Primary site 26 ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/ 27 http://www.zsh.org/pub/ 28 29 Australia 30 ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/ 31 http://www.zsh.org/pub/ 32 http://mirror.dejanseo.com.au/pub/zsh/ 33 34 Hungary 35 ftp://ftp.cs.elte.hu/pub/zsh/ 36 http://www.cs.elte.hu/pub/zsh/ 37 38The up-to-date source code is available via anonymous CVS and Git from 39Sourceforge. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/zsh/ for details. 40A summary of instructions for the CVS and Git archives can be found at 41http://zsh.sourceforget.net/. 42 43 44Mailing Lists 45------------- 46 47Zsh has 3 mailing lists: 48 49 <zsh-announce@zsh.org> 50 Announcements about releases, major changes in the shell and the 51 monthly posting of the Zsh FAQ. (moderated) 52 53 <zsh-users@zsh.org> 54 User discussions. 55 56 <zsh-workers@zsh.org> 57 Hacking, development, bug reports and patches. 58 59To subscribe or unsubscribe, send mail 60to the associated administrative address for the mailing list. 61 62 <zsh-announce-subscribe@zsh.org> 63 <zsh-users-subscribe@zsh.org> 64 <zsh-workers-subscribe@zsh.org> 65 66 <zsh-announce-unsubscribe@zsh.org> 67 <zsh-users-unsubscribe@zsh.org> 68 <zsh-workers-unsubscribe@zsh.org> 69 70YOU ONLY NEED TO JOIN ONE OF THE MAILING LISTS AS THEY ARE NESTED. 71All submissions to zsh-announce are automatically forwarded to 72zsh-users. All submissions to zsh-users are automatically 73forwarded to zsh-workers. 74 75If you have problems subscribing/unsubscribing to any of the mailing 76lists, send mail to <listmaster@zsh.org>. The mailing lists are 77maintained by Karsten Thygesen <karthy@kom.auc.dk>. 78 79The mailing lists are archived; the archives can be accessed via the 80administrative addresses listed above. There is also a hypertext 81archive, maintained by Geoff Wing <gcw@zsh.org>, available at 82http://www.zsh.org/mla/. 83 84The Zsh FAQ 85----------- 86 87Zsh has a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), maintained by 88Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org>. It is regularly posted to the 89newsgroup comp.unix.shell and the zsh-announce mailing list. 90The latest version can be found at any of the Zsh FTP sites, or at 91http://www.zsh.org/FAQ/. The contact address for FAQ-related matters 92is <faqmaster@zsh.org>. 93 94The Zsh Web Page 95---------------- 96 97Zsh has a web page which is located at http://www.zsh.org/. This is 98maintained by Karsten Thygesen <karthy@zsh.org>, of SunSITE Denmark. 99The contact address for web-related matters is <webmaster@zsh.org>. 100 101The Zsh Userguide 102----------------- 103 104A userguide is currently in preparation. It is intended to complement the 105manual, with explanations and hints on issues where the manual can be 106cabbalistic, hierographic, or downright mystifying (for example, the word 107`hierographic' does not exist). It can be viewed in its current state at 108http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/. At the time of writing, chapters 109dealing with startup files and their contents and the new completion system 110were essentially complete. 111 112The Zsh Wiki 113------------ 114 115A `wiki' website for zsh has been created at http://www.zshwiki.org/. 116This is a site which can be added to and modified directly by users without 117any special permission. You can add your own zsh tips and configurations. 118