From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14858 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2000 14:12:12 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Jan 2000 14:12:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 16053 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2000 14:12:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2836 Received: (qmail 16044 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2000 14:11:57 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 01:11:47 +1100 From: Shao Zhang To: ZSH Mail List Subject: ZDOTDIR Message-ID: <20000107011147.A1802@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i Sender: Shao Ying Zhang Hi, According to the man pages, ZDOTDIR is the directory used by zsh to search for shell startup files(.zshrc etc). But, what is the ideal place to define this variable?? I would really like to do it in .zshrc, but I cannot since zsh uses it to find where .zshrc is. Thanks for any help. Shao. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: shao@cia.com.au |___/ _____________________________________________________________________________