RE: Problem running zsh on WinNT 4.0

[Amol Deshpande <amold@MICROSOFT.com>]

on nt 4.0 zsh will actually look for a $USERPROFILE directory. it  may be
that
variable is not being set automatically. I don't quite know why that would
be.

If someone who has had to explicitly HOME (via the environment settings or
usrmgr)
would send me a dump of their environment from a cmd.exe prompt, I'll
try to figure out what's going on.

of course, please make sure that $ZSH_VERSION is 3.0.5-nt-beta-0.50 (or
greater).
If  the version does not contain the "nt-beta.." part, then you are probably
using 
a cygwin or u/win or interix zsh, not mine.


thanks,
-amol

> ----------
> From: 	Bart Schaefer[SMTP:schaefer@brasslantern.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, February 12, 1999 9:01 AM
> To: 	Larry P . Schrof; Trinh, Timothy
> Cc: 	'zsh-users@math.gatech.edu'
> Subject: 	Re: Problem running zsh on WinNT 4.0
> 
> On Feb 12,  9:49am, Larry P . Schrof wrote:
> } Subject: Re: Problem running zsh on WinNT 4.0
> }
> } I believe that should be called .zprofile instead of profile.zsh if you
> } want it automatically read at zsh startup. 
> 
> This part is correct.
> 
> } If the RCS option is unset, however, somewhere in /etc/zshenv, then the
> } file WON'T be read, even if it is named correctly. (I'll be honest,
> } I haven't looked at zsh on NT - functionality could be different
> } as far as what startup files are read.)
> 
> Assuming you're using Amol Deshpande's zsh port, it will indeed read the
> files \etc\zshenv, \etc\zshrc, etc. if you create a \etc directory on your
> default drive (e.g. C:\etc).
> 
> It also reads $HOME\.zshenv, $HOME\.zshrc, etc., where HOME has to be set
> in the environment by using the NT user account manager (use the option to
> assign the user a home directory, don't just add HOME to the environment).
> 
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