From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7221 invoked from network); 29 Oct 1997 17:05:06 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 29 Oct 1997 17:05:06 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03785; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:59:20 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:58:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710291658.LAA03731@math.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Perl replacement challenge In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:19:56 CST." <199710291619.KAA11548@ihnns581.ih.lucent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:59:27 +0000 From: Bruce Stephens Resent-Message-ID: <"SIwph3.0.Tw.AjsLq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1116 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu ramos@ih4ess.ih.lucent.com said: > I work in an environment surrounded by KSH users (hey does this > qualify as a "hostile work environment"??). That includes the system > administrators and tool developers, so it is not surprising there are > many scripts in the system which must be "dotted" into ksh to do > something non-trivial and dynamically setup environment variables as > a result. What's so wacky about these scripts that zsh doesn't understand them? If they work under "emulate ksh", then you could probably switch this on temporarily why you source them. I also use some environment setting scripts from ksh users, but they're POSIX enough that zsh just works.