From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: "Peter Stephenson" <pws@csr.com>, <I.S.Wolfe@happy-man.com>,
"Zsh users list" <zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: Windows Zsh - Available Elsewhere?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 18:26:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005a01c05ecf$cff2a200$c9c9ca95@mw1g666c> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0G510002CHNC9B@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Stephenson" <pws@csr.com>
To: <I.S.Wolfe@happy-man.com>; "Zsh users list" <zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: Windows Zsh - Available Elsewhere?
> > The only reference I have been able to find to the
> > Windows port of zsh is on ftp.blarg.net, which seems
> > to always refuse anonymous ftp connections.
>
> You might want to take a look at Cygwin, which is now fully supported, for
> various values of `fully'. Cygwin is easily downloadable (more or less,
er,
> fully automated) from sources.redhat.com, and zsh will compile out of the
> box. This gives you a complete UNIX environment, which zsh running under
> native Windows doesn't. However, it's not that fast. The comparison
> between zsh running under Linux and under Windows 98/Cygwin on the same
box
> is painful (although the two words in the middle are probably the main
> culprit).
>
I probably should add a comment, that recent versions of Cygwin are a bit
faster. Also, there is some difference between Win9x and Win2k - I can say
only about the latter and it has acceptable performance w.r.t. Cygwin
(assuming, you are able to run Win2k at all :-)
-andrej
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-05 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-03 18:41 I.S.Wolfe
2000-12-04 10:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2000-12-05 15:26 ` Andrej Borsenkow [this message]
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