From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: zsh-workers-request@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA07379 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:41:40 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA29798; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 02:41:53 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 02:41:53 -0500 (EST) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199610290129.CAA01952@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: compatibility problem with bash? To: carlos@riglos.fisica.ufpr.br (Carlos Carvalho) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 02:29:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: from Carlos Carvalho at "Oct 28, 96 10:48:00 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"4s3Oq2.0.WH7.0LRTo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2291 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > I linked /bin/sh to /bin/zsh 3.0.1. However, when installing certain > specific debian packages in linux I get the following error: > > Setting up gzip (1.2.4-11) ... > install-info: read gzip -d > The problem doesn't happen if sh is a link to bash. I can get more > details if necessary. I would really appreciate if you can send me more details. From that I cannot tell anything. Note that zsh is not fully compatible with bash but it tries to be compatible with POSIX. Please send this install-info script and tell me as much as possuble about it knowing that I've never used debian of dpkg. Thanks, Zoltan