From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5809 invoked from network); 14 Sep 1998 18:02:30 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Sep 1998 18:02:30 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA20386; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:53:30 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:52:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980914195552.C22353@math.fu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:55:52 +0200 From: "'Sven Guckes'" To: ZShell Users List Cc: amol@blarg.net Subject: Re: zsh for win32 - installation of zshrc Mail-Followup-To: ZShell Users List , amol@blarg.net References: <19980912074352.C18849@math.fu-berlin.de> <980911235322.ZM1397@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <980911235322.ZM1397@candle.brasslantern.com>; from Bart Schaefer on Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 11:53:22PM -0700 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/ Resent-Message-ID: <"A5-k-1.0.iz4.tVL_r"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1789 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Quoting Bart Schaefer (schaefer@brasslantern.com): > zagzig[21] zcat zsh.exe.gz | strings -a | less +/zshrc Actually, I tried just that - but I figured that it would not work as there is no directories /etc on Windows systems. :-/ > So of course c:\zshrc isn't going to work; it's looking for .zshrc > (which prehaps you can't create on a Win95 machine because of the > silly 8.3 filename rule, though I'm pretty sure you can on NT). Well, how could I be sure? Actually, I find that using "zshrc" would be a nice workaround because of the "8.3" filename convention. > So you either need to create a c:\etc\zshrc (and zlogin and zshenv > and zlogout if you want) or find out what zsh thinks $HOME is set to > (by starting zsh and typing "echo $HOME") > and put files with names starting with a "." in there, if you can. I'd rather look into a manual explaining this. (hint hint ;-) > It appears, from further perusal of the strings output, that $HOMEDRIVE > and $HOMEPATH are used to generate part of the default $Path, > as is a variable $ZSHROOT that isn't used in unix zsh. I understand that the following "filenames" should work then: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%/.zshrc %HOME%/.zshrc %ZDOTDIR%/.zshrc Now, which order do these take? Amol? A rough summary of this can be read on http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/zsh/windows.html Sven