From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4434 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2006 10:05:20 -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=-2.5 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 10:05:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 27647 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2006 10:05:12 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Feb 2006 10:05:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 7461 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2006 10:05:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9893 Received: (qmail 7446 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2006 10:05:01 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Feb 2006 10:05:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 26100 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2006 10:05:01 -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 10:05:00 -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 <0IUF005W000A1W@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:04:59 +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 11:04:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.3/8.13.3/1) with ESMTP id k19A4vN9027888 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:04:57 +0100 (MET) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 491A8DAF2E; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:04:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:04:58 +0100 (CET) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: exotic shell sought To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Reply-to: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Hi, 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 This is a self extracting shell script. (the first line is #!/bin/sh) Unfortunately it fails, with a dirname too many arguments error. This old shell probably has a different string quoting mechanism. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany