From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13067 invoked from network); 12 Sep 1998 07:05:00 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Sep 1998 07:05:00 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id CAA24022; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 02:52:29 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 02:52:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <980911235322.ZM1397@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 23:53:22 -0700 In-Reply-To: <19980912074352.C18849@math.fu-berlin.de> Comments: In reply to "'Sven Guckes'" "Re: zsh for win32 - installation of zshrc" (Sep 12, 7:43am) References: <19980912074352.C18849@math.fu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: "'Sven Guckes'" , ZShell Users List Subject: Re: zsh for win32 - installation of zshrc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"oY4vM.0.ks5.YeX-r"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1788 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Sep 12, 7:43am, 'Sven Guckes' wrote: } Subject: Re: zsh for win32 - installation of zshrc } } Quoting Brian Agnew (Brian.Agnew@saudibank.com): } > >How do you install the zshrc on WindowsNT? } > I've just stuck it in the root (C:/) directory. Seems to work fine. } } I am told that neither c:\zshrc nor d:\zshrc works. Exploratory surgery almost always yields useful results: zagzig[21] zcat zsh.exe.gz | strings -a | less +/zshrc .zshrc /etc/zshrc .zprofile /etc/zprofile .zshenv /etc/zshenv /etc/suid_profile .profile /etc/profile path too long: %s ZDOTDIR and so forth. So of course c:\zshrc isn't going to work; it's looking for .zshrc (which prehaps you can't create on a Win95 machine because of the silly 8.3 filename rule, though I'm pretty sure you can on NT). So you either need to create a c:\etc\zshrc (and zlogin and zshenv and zlogout if you want) or find out what zsh thinks $HOME is set to (by starting zsh and typing "echo $HOME") and put files with names starting with a "." in there, if you can. It appears, from further perusal of the strings output, that $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH are used to generate part of the default $Path, as is a variable $ZSHROOT that isn't used in unix zsh. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com