X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <0JGS00BI3VGJ6960@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> <4628D097.3080802@cygwin.com> <10128810.post@talk.nabble.com> Subject: RE: zsh on Vista Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:38:06 +0100 Message-ID: <00a001c7852e$e5582f20$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <10128810.post@talk.nabble.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l3MMcoeW024282 On 22 April 2007 23:32, sethk wrote: > I've had some success using a different version of zsh on vista. > > In the UnxUtils package, there is a version of zsh, named sh. (Not copied > or linked to zsh, for whatever reason, and, I should say, named sh.exe.) > > I created a shortcut for this executable. It mostly works. I'm having some > issues, such as relative paths not working as expected, but that's not > surprising. Well, yes, since UnxUtils is a win32 native package, not a cygwin program at all. It won't understand posix-style paths or LF line-ends or anything. > I'm currently rebuilding zsh, under cygwin, to see if a version built under > vista behaves any better than the binary distributed with cygwin. Certainly can't hurt to try. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/