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> I know it isn't a new version, but zsh-2.6-beta1 has served me well, so I 
> haven't updated it.  Now I've got a problem.  I was doing completions 
> ../somefile[tab] for a lengthy 'ln -s' command such as
>
[...]
> 
> *CRASH*
> memory allocation error: attempt to free or realloc space not in heap
> 
> is this a problem which is fixed in a later version or am I just outta luck?

There have been a lot of changes since beta1.  The only thing I could suggest
is try the latest beta release (beta12) and see if it fixes the problem.  The
current beta release seems to be fairly stable.

rc