From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5588 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2003 13:54:05 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 5 Apr 2003 13:54:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 24613 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2003 13:53:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6016 Received: (qmail 24593 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2003 13:53:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Apr 2003 13:53:31 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [200.210.155.232] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 5 Apr 2003 13:53:30 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by luc (ArGoSoft Mail Server Freeware, Version 1.8 (1.8.2.3)); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:59:21 -0300 Message-ID: <200304051059200520.000D11E0@127.0.0.1> References: <200304050139220710.001E4844@127.0.0.1> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.00.00.13 (2) Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 10:59:20 -0300 Reply-To: lucianoav@gmx.net From: "Luciano ES" To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: ZSH on Dos/Windows Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, everyone. I have been using zsh for only a couple of weeks and haven=92t had much time to work with it. So I am a newbie. I've read a lot of the manual, but have found it difficult to find the following info: - I am using zsh under Win/DOS. How can I launch zsh with an argument to determine the startup directory? I thought I could run zsh -c "cd c:/some/dir", but then the shell is not interactive. It runs and closes right away. Calling zsh -ic "... didn't make any difference. My specific need is to call zsh and open a command line session from another program, with possibly a different working directory every time it is called. My current workaround is to have that program set the desired working directory as the value of the $ZSHSTARTDIR environment var *then* call zsh. Then one line in .zshrc cd=92s to $ZSHSTARTDIR. Well, it works, but I find it a little clumsy and would like to know if there is another way. - BTW, running zsh not interactively often doesn't work because stupid DOS changes all the path forward slashes that there may in the command argument into backward slashes, even though the path is inside the quotes of an argument. By the time the argument reaches zsh, zsh cannot find the path with backward slashes. Does anyone know how to bypass that? - Is it at all possible to use colors in Win/DOS? I followed all those instructions found on the manual, but I think they only apply to Unix. I know colors are possible in DOS, I have seen ports of GNU tools that even change the color of the background of the DOS shell, but I have been unable to use any color with zsh. - Where can I find binaries for Windows? I see a new version has just been released and had a look-see at the FTP site. There are no Windows binaries there. I am using a binary distribution I got at this site , $ZSH_VERSION tells me it is version 3.0.5-nt-beta-0.75 and I find it a bit too old... Thank you very much for any input. -- Luciano Espirito Santo Santos, SP - Brasil