From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2916 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 00:39:19 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Apr 2003 00:39:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 173 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2003 00:38:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6031 Received: (qmail 166 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 00:38:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Apr 2003 00:38:43 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [200.210.155.57] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 14 Apr 2003 0:38:42 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by luc (ArGoSoft Mail Server Freeware, Version 1.8 (1.8.2.3)); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 21:40:59 -0300 Message-ID: <200304132140590060.002A864D@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: References: <200304050139220710.001E4844@127.0.0.1> <200304051059200520.000D11E0@127.0.0.1> <200304051353440930.00ACC4C4@127.0.0.1> <1e2co8dovf08r.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> <200304061248380080.0081454B@127.0.0.1> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.00.00.13 (2) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 21:40:59 -0300 Reply-To: lucianoav@gmx.net From: "Luciano ES" To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: ZSH on Dos/Windows - the end Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, everyone. If you don't remember me anymore, I turned to you last weekend to get help on the use of ZSH under DOS/Windows. I moaned about not having a newer build than 3.0.5 for Windows, and that I didn't want to use Cygwin. Well, after this week, I think I am definitely converted into Cygwin. I've been using it a lot and I am enjoying it. My only complaint, a big one, is that Cygwin freezes too often when I call Bash or ZSH. The console window opens, but the shell won't start. Then I have to Ctrl+Alt+Del and kill bash or zsh and winoldap and try again. It happens in over half of all the times I launch the shell, with or without rxvt. REALLY annoying. Apart from that, things are working fine, including zsh. Thorsten and Bart: your tips on how to set up key bindings and colors surely helped a lot. Some of Bart's bindings didn't work in rxvt, but Thorsten's did. I am still learning how to set up these. Thank you very much for your help. On the other hand, Thorsten, you told me to RTFM several times, and that's not always the best answer. My question about the changes from zsh 3.0.5 to the latest, was made totally on purpose. These change logs most often don't mean anything to a newbie. Since I don't use the program/language/whatever, I have no way to assess the impact of any given change, changes made when I didn't even know the program/language/whatever existed, so I cannot pinpoint the most relevant changes in a long and strange list. I still don't know which of those changes are the most relevant, but that doesn't matter anymore because I am planning to stick with Cygwin. And, you see, there *was* something wrong with cron in Cygwin=85 :-Para I also told you I was using zsh to index all files in my hard drive, that it was pretty fast with zsh 3.0.5 Windows and *very slow* with zsh 4.0.6 Cygwin. More than one person suggested that I use updatdb and locate for that. I didn't like it at all. Locate is pretty fast, but you have to reindex the drives and update the database with updatdb, and that's *very slow* too. I considered keeping zsh 3.0.5 Windows for that task alone, but I replaced it completely with a Tcl script. zsh 3.0.5 Windows can scan my drives in 20~30 seconds. Tcl can scan my drives in 20~30 seconds the first time it is run, and if it's run again any time before a reboot, it does the job in no more than 10 seconds. Yay! This language is always surprising me. Well, I guess this is it. Thank you for your attention and kind help. Best regards, -- Luciano Espirito Santo Santos, SP - Brasil