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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson AT allantgroup DOT com>
Subject: Re: Making zsh the default
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:05:24 -0600
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Virginia Mann wrote:
> Larry Hall kindly advised:
>> Assuming you start bash now by clicking on the icon for cygwin.bat, 
>> simply 
>> edit that file, and replace "bash" with "zsh".  You'll need to review the 
>> man page for zsh to see what are the appropriate flags to pass to get a 
>> login shell.  I don't have zsh installed otherwise I might give you a 
>> clue. ;-)
> 
> Are you kidding? That was the best clue you could have given! 
> My mental model was wrong. I was looking inside the system for 
> something that was in a "DOS" batch file.

Now all that's needed is a way to let us not install bash...  Why does 
setup.exe insist on selecting the bash package?  I have to remember to 
cycle it back to "Skip" every time.

-- 
	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson AT allantgroup DOT com



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