From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12614 invoked from network); 19 Oct 1999 16:00:40 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 19 Oct 1999 16:00:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 1022 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 1999 15:57:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2690 Received: (qmail 6717 invoked from network); 19 Oct 1999 15:31:19 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <991019152633.ZM5649@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:26:33 +0000 In-Reply-To: <380C7057.2A5DC680@santera.com> Comments: In reply to Tom Dillard "built-in problem?" (Oct 19, 8:21am) References: <380C7057.2A5DC680@santera.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk, Tom Dillard Subject: Re: built-in problem? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Oct 19, 8:21am, Tom Dillard wrote: } Subject: built-in problem? } } I appologize for sending to this email list. I tried the } zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk } one but it seems to be defunct. It's not defunct; your message reached it. There just happens to be one bad address on the list that causes a bounce message to be returned when the list server forwards to that person. } Here is the output I see when, for example, I run an interactive } shell for a relational database tool (don't get too hung up on what } I'm running, I see it on other things as well; this just happens } to be the most recent): } } % ttIsql } .zshrc } /export/home/tdillard/.zshrc[16]: syntax error: `(' unexpected That is not an error message from zsh. There is no circumstance in which zsh prints "syntax error" and "unexpected" -- zsh prints "parse error". So what appears to be happening is that the interactive tool is running /bin/sh or ksh, and something -- perhaps your .profile file, or the ENV environment variable? Is causing that other shell to read your .zshrc. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com