Hi, I'm very pleased to announce you the latest version of ZShell, the Zope Shell. This is the latest version which is not a Zope product (I promise), and only bug fixes will eventually be added from now on. New features are: * ZShellCLI is now part of the package, thanks to Andy McKay. ZShellCLI is an independant executable script in Python which allows you to use ZShell from your favorite command line. * Some bug fixes and syntax cleaning, thanks to Holger Lehmann, Jean Jordaan, and Andy McKay. * Debian manual page for ZShell is now part of the package, thanks to Jim Penny. * Five new commands were added: uptime: displays Zope's uptime dbname: displays Zope's database name dbsize: displays Zope's database size zope: search terms on zope.org and last but not least, the command everybody missed: exec: executes external commands The exec command executes external commands as the user who launched Zope (usually user nobody), e.g.: exec ls -la / WARNING: exec telnet needs more work ;-) I'd be especially happy to receive informations/patches to make the exec command work under Windows which I don't plan to test personnally. It may work but I really don't know: you're on your own. *** CONTEST *** I'm planning to send a personnal (cheap) gift to the author of the best or more interesting thing done using exclusively ZShell commands, so if anybody has ideas on how to organise such a contest, or want to be part of the informal jury, please let me know. *** CONTEST *** Any comment is welcome. bye, Jerome Alet - alet@unice.fr