From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1254 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2000 10:41:42 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (HELO sunsite.auc.dk) (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Dec 2000 10:41:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 25239 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2000 10:40:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 3548 Received: (qmail 25232 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2000 10:40:58 -0000 Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 10:40:24 +0000 From: Peter Stephenson Subject: Re: Windows Zsh - Available Elsewhere? In-reply-to: "Your message of Sun, 03 Dec 2000 10:41:45 PST." <20001203104145.B878@Happy-Man.com> To: I.S.Wolfe@happy-man.com, zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh users list) Message-id: <0G510002CHNC9B@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > 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). -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer Cambridge Silicon Radio, Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070