zsh and screen (was: Re: [plug] console scroll)

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 02:02:30PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I find the talk of "Zsh built-in FTP client" in 'man zshall' rather
> disturbing, though.  I'm not sure if this is really a shell I want to be
> seen associating with... :-P

Well... Bash lets you bind arbitary network ports via magic filenames,
something along the lines of ;

$ cat < /dev/tcp/localhost/13

It's disabled in the default Debian build. ::-)

Nick.

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