NAME

zoidfaq - Frequently Asked Questions for Zoidberg

DESCRIPTION

About the project

What's with the name ?

If you don't know where the name comes from, you should watch more cartoons.

Quoting some futurama episode about a certain docter Zoidberg :

"He's a weird monster who smells
    like he eats garbage and does"

This program was from the very beginning intended to become a huge and bloated monster.

Is it stable yet ?

NO ! If it is stable we'll call it 1.00 . Currently we are working towards a 0.50 release that will be the first candidate for a stable version.

Is it safe to use it already ?

Kind of, as long as you don't try too fancy stuff with too many privileges.

Features

How do I turn off ansi colours ?

Set the environment variable CLICOLOR to 0 (null).

What's with the single arrow ?

When you type perl code without brackets around it, zoid does a little source filtering making a arrow '->' (the dereference operator) at the start of a word an alias for '$shell->'. Where '$shell' is the main shell object.

zoid$ ->Commands->cd(q/../)
# is the same as
zoid$ $shell->Commands->cd(q/../)

Errors

I upgraded to a new version of zoid and it crash immediately !?

If you have all dependencies right you probably need to remove either the directory ~/.zoid or the file ~/.cache/zoid_path_cache.

I got a segfault after using perl syntax, is this a bug ?

Well, if it _is_ a bug then probably it's a bug in perl, not in zoid. Most notoriously if you use globs in perl code, perl 5.8.0 can segfault; upgrading to perl 5.8.2 fixes this problem.

SEE ALSO

perl(1), http://zoidberg.sourceforge.net