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Re: /dev/tcp support of zsh?

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: /dev/tcp support of zsh?
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:18:40 +0100
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In-reply-to: "Juhapekka Tolvanen"'s message of "Sat, 05 Jun 2004 16:02:54 +0300." <20040605130254.GA26698@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> So, what developers of zsh are going to do? Or is that /dev/tcp support
> in zsh already?

Zsh 4.2 does this with a builtin (ztcp) in a loadable module
(zsh/net/tcp) and has a function suite built around it (man zshtcpsys),
which even has (vaguely) expect-style input handling.  Faking a system
device wasn't a great way of doing this.

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References:
- /dev/tcp support of zsh?
  - From: Juhapekka Tolvanen

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