The latest official release of osh is available via:
- http://v6shell.org/src/
- http://v6shell.org/src/osh-20111027.tar.gz
- http://v6shell.org/src/osh-20111027.sums
- http://v6shell.org/src/CHANGES
- http://v6shell.org/src/CHANGES6
Due to the untimely passing of Dennis M. Ritchie (dmr) in early October of 2011, I hereby dedicate osh-20111027 in his memory. You can find further info via the DEDICATIONS file. Here’s to DMR!
The osh-20111027 release has been announced on freecode.com. So, what’s new in this release? The following describes the major points.
Bugfixes: This release fixes both a mkconfig problem on older OpenBSD releases and an unrelated globbing problem caused by an unsigned integer overflow.
New Features: This release adds a new command aliasing feature that is similar to csh(1) aliasing in some respects & two new parameters: $# (as a synonym for $n) and $*.
Other Changes: Style changes (e.g., bold, italic, `literal' text) were made in all of the manual pages to make for easier reading, an “Aliases (+)” subsection was added to osh.1, and a “Metacharacters” subsection was added to osh.1 & sh6.1. The included examples/dot.* files were also updated.
By J.A. Neitzel
