Windows Zsh - Available Elsewhere?

Windows Zsh - Available Elsewhere?

[I.S.Wolfe]

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.

If there is another pickup-point for this software,
would someone please tell me what it is?  And if not,
would someone be kind enough to send me a copy?  I
can provide an ftp dropoff-point, if anyone would
make the file-transfer to me.

Thanks!

Regards,
 - Irving
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Re: Windows Zsh - Available Elsewhere?

[Peter Stephenson]

> 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 <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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Re: Windows Zsh - Available Elsewhere?

[Andrej Borsenkow]

----- 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