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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:58:27 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-1 (Attn: zsh maintainer)
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:40:23PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> > On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, zzapper wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:40:59 +0100,  wrote:
>> > > >On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:09:28 -0500 (EST),  wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > >>An updated version of zsh (zsh-4.2.0-1) has been released and should be
>> > > >>at a mirror near you real soon.
>> > > >>
>> > > >Hi I saw zsh 4.2.0 download this morning when I ran my daily setup
>> > > >however (having reset my PC as requested)
>> > > >
>> > > >zsh --version
>> > > >zsh 4.1.1 (i686-pc-cygwin)
>> > > >
>> > > >>whence zsh
>> > > >/usr/bin/zsh
>> > > >
>> > > I had to rename zsh-4.2.0.exe to zsh.exe myself (is that
>> > > normal/correct?)
>> > >
>> > > zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)
>> >
>> > Sounds like a packaging bug.  The archive contains "/usr/bin/zsh.exe" as a
>> > symbolic link to "/usr/bin/zsh-4.2.0.exe".  This will cause zsh to not
>> > work from batch files and shortcuts (!).
>
>(I'm tired) I just noticed, it's not a symlink, its a hardlink.  As such,
>it'll materialize as if it was a real file in the filesystems and native
>Windows programs will see it as a normal file, not a link.

Unfortunately, setup.exe doesn't recognize hard links, AFAIK.

cgf

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