From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13216 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2006 10:25:49 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Feb 2006 10:25:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 46649 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2006 10:25:40 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Feb 2006 10:25:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 12880 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2006 10:25:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9894 Received: (qmail 12868 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2006 10:25:32 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Feb 2006 10:25:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 45518 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2006 10:25:31 -0000 Received: from ms-2.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de) (134.130.3.131) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Feb 2006 10:25:31 -0000 Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IUF0052B0YI0Q@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:25:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:25:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from fsst.voodoo.lan (u-0-176.vpn.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.96.176]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.3/8.13.3/1) with ESMTP id k19APTcH001327 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:25:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from hawk by fsst.voodoo.lan with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F78zK-0003OH-8v for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:25:22 +0100 Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:25:21 +0100 From: Frank Terbeck Subject: Re: exotic shell sought In-reply-to: To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Mail-followup-to: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Message-id: <20060209102521.GC20315@fsst.voodoo.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Operating-System: Linux 2.6.15.1 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 References: Helmut Jarausch wrote: > is there a switch or a special symlink name > which enables zsh to simulate a probably > extremely old shell. > > I'd need this to install Sun's java runtime environment > jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin [...] Hi Helmut, The zsh emulates the bourne shell if it's called as 'sh'. The jre archive extracts for me with /bin/sh linked to zsh. Regards, Frank