Short:    Small but powerful Shell; now OS2.0+ features supported
Type:     util/shell
Uploader: uj3w@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de  (Martin Gierich)
Version:  ZShell V2.4 (26.02.95)
Authors:  Paul Hayter & Martin Gierich
Requirements: Any Amiga

For those who never read documents:
 Please read at least the small chapter in the documentation called
 "For Those Who Never Read The Whole Documentation".

Features:
* Freeware, no payment required.
* Usage is similar (or better) to the standard AmigaDOS shell.
* Supports the standard housekeeping commands which are builtin,
  so no disk access is necessary.
  eg. list, dir, cd, assign, delete, copy, move, path, info, type
* A total of 65 builtin commands.
* About 30K small (pure assembler code, source included).
* Starting from Workbench (!) or CLI. No installation needed.
* Filenamecompletion by simply pressing TAB; shows all matches.
* Review-buffer to see again what scrolled out of the window.
* Some commands and debugging features for programmers.
* Command line editing better than OS2.0 Shell.
* Support of OS2.0+ and OS3.0+ specific features.
* DIR and LIST both sort (by default) and show filesizes.
* Wild cards and recursive processing.
* Makes itself resident for quicker starting and memory saving.
* Real (!) RUN and NEWCLI command that reenters ZShell quickly.
* Application-Window/-Icon
* Simple 'MORE' type text viewer.
* Online Help function and AmigaGuide documentation with examples.
* Can create and show Hard- and Softlinks.


 ZShell is a small (30K), fast and powerful Shell with many (65)
 builtin commands. So it replaces most of the commands in the C:
 directory (like LIST, COPY etc.) what effects in saving disk space
 and reducing disk accesses. There is no way around ZShell for
 those who do not have a harddisk or still have Kickstart 1.2/1.3 .

 But it is useful for those with a better Kickstart and/or
 harddisk, too, because for example it has powerful editing &
 history, filenamecompletion, review buffer, some Kickstart
 2.0/3.0 specific features and a lovely LIST command.

 ZShell is inteded for shell users who do not need a script
 file execution which is as complex as a programming language
 (simple script execution with IF, ASK, SKIP etc. is supported).
 I tried to make usage nearly like the AmigaDOS Shell with some
 features known from UN*X Shells but without a confusing variety
 of options ("LIST -R" and "LIST ALL" both work).

 For programmers ZShell has things like showing EXEC-lists and the
 task list, memory dumping, execution checking and removing tasks.

 You can switch off the internal command-line-editor to use
 ZShell with console handlers like KingCON.


New since V2.2:
 Support of OS2.0+ specific stuff (MALELINK, MAKEICON,
 ASSIGN ADD, Application-Window etc.).
 Totally rewrote PATH, COPY, DELETE, PROTECT, MOVE and JOIN.
 Bugfixes.

Note:
  This is an update to Version 1.3 on the Fish Library Disk 537 from
  Paul Hayter. I (Martin) tried to ask him for permission to release
  this, but he has not answered. Because it is still Freeware and the
  original executable with documentation is included, I do not think
  that I am doing something nasty. ( In the original distribution
  there was the source code included but there was nothing stated
  about changing the source. )