From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10634 invoked from network); 12 Feb 1999 20:54:46 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Feb 1999 20:54:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 2559 invoked by alias); 12 Feb 1999 20:53:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2138 Received: (qmail 2541 invoked from network); 12 Feb 1999 20:53:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3AABFE76426DD211AC3000805FFE11768A7130@hq-msg04.nwest.mccaw.com> From: "Trinh, Timothy" To: "'Larry P . Schrof'" Cc: "'jr@scms.rgu.ac.uk'" , "'zsh-users@math.gatech.edu'" , "'Bart Schaefer'" Subject: RE: Problem running zsh on WinNT 4.0 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:53:35 -0800 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Thanks again that did the trick. As for my other problem, I looked at the .zshrc for a while and noticed that there is a command called setopt. So, I put the following line in my .zshrc file: setopt winntconvertbackslash This did not solve the problem of the back slashes in window's environment variable. Instead of using the $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH, I just specify as the path explicitly. So now, I just have the following line in my .zprofile: export MY_OUTPUT_DIR=e:/jobs/$USERNAME (since $USERNAME contains on backslashes, I avoid the problem entirely) It would be nice to have this resolve in case I have to actually use the window's environment variable which contains backslashes. Thanks again for all your help, Timothy ---------- From: Larry P . Schrof[SMTP:schrof@cig.mot.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 11:40 AM To: Trinh, Timothy Cc: 'jr@scms.rgu.ac.uk'; 'zsh-users@math.gatech.edu'; 'Bart Schaefer'; Larry P . Schrof Subject: Re: Problem running zsh on WinNT 4.0 On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 11:23:54AM -0800, Trinh, Timothy wrote: > When I set my window's HOME environment variable to %HOMEDRIVE%HOMEPATH, > this allowed the zsh program to > automatically source in my .zshrc (located in HOME), but not my profile > file(also located in HOME). I tried renaming the profile file to .zprofile, > .profile, and profile.zsh, but it still did not source in my profile file. In order for the .zprofile to be read, it hss to be a login shell. Try invoking zsh with a -l argument and see if that helps. - Larry