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RE: zsh on Vista
On 22 April 2007 23:32, sethk wrote:
> I've had some success using a different version of zsh on vista.
>
> In the UnxUtils package, there is a version of zsh, named sh. (Not copied
> or linked to zsh, for whatever reason, and, I should say, named sh.exe.)
>
> I created a shortcut for this executable. It mostly works. I'm having some
> issues, such as relative paths not working as expected, but that's not
> surprising.
Well, yes, since UnxUtils is a win32 native package, not a cygwin program at all. It won't understand posix-style paths or LF line-ends or anything.
> I'm currently rebuilding zsh, under cygwin, to see if a version built under
> vista behaves any better than the binary distributed with cygwin.
Certainly can't hurt to try.
cheers,
DaveK
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