Chet Ramey

How to contact me:

Chet Ramey
chet.ramey@case.edu
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NOTE: No special web browser software is required to view my web pages. They should be readable with almost any web browser (including the text-based "lynx" browser). I have avoided the use of features such as non-standard browser-specific extensions, java, java script, random plugins, and animated GIFs because they are distracting and slow things down. Call me a traditionalist. (Thanks to Chuck Cranor for this paragraph.)

General information

I graduated from CWRU with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 1987, and received a Master's in Computer Science, also from CWRU, in August, 1993.

I live in Novelty, Ohio, with my wife, Elizabeth Ruzga, my daughter, Jenna Ruzga, and my son, Caleb Ramey. They are the lights of my life. We are also owned by cats, dogs (named Jesolo), and cats we foster from the local APL.

I have an occasionally-updated blog where I write on things of interest.

Pictures of my 2003 trip to California with family are still here.

You can read an interview I recently did with Computerworld.

An old interview from 2002 is also online.

My Projects

• Bash, The Bourne-Again Shell
• The GNU Readline library
• CE, (Chet's Editor), a small, fast, emacs-like text editor (also available via FTP).
• The EMM mail manager

I also maintain an interests page with miscellaneous technical and non-technical information. See my links page for more interesting links.

My current favorite quote: