From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29085 invoked from network); 4 Aug 1998 15:48:17 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Aug 1998 15:48:17 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA09972; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 11:42:21 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 11:42:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808041544.QAA25585@diamond.tao.co.uk> Subject: Re: PATH handling broken in zsh 3.1.4 To: stucki@math.fu-berlin.de (Stucki) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:44:30 +0100 (BST) From: "Zefram" Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <19980804173707.A29823@math.fu-berlin.de> from "Stucki" at Aug 4, 98 05:37:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"XRSt-.0.lR2.Slonr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4263 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Stucki wrote: >OK, that works as supposed, but the 'csh'(ells) do 'really' imply >(meaning create) the dot, so you can work with it! >Shouldn't 'zsh' do the same in 'path' then ? I'd prefer to have >the same behavior! I'd rather have zsh leave $path exactly as it was set. POSIX, of course, requires that $PATH remain exactly as it was set, as is historical practice. I'd rather remain compatible with the Bourne shell in this respect, too. -zefram