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Re: Making zsh the default


Larry Hall kindly advised:

I don't have zsh installed otherwise I might give you a
clue. ;-)
Are you kidding? That was the best clue you could have given!
My mental model was wrong. I was looking inside the system for
something that was in a "DOS" batch file.

Thanks!




From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
To: "Virginia Mann" <tuanglen@hotmail.com>,cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Making zsh the default
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:08:26 -0500

At 07:06 PM 1/26/2003, Virginia Mann wrote:
>This is probably a dumb question, but I'm a real newbie, so here goes....
>
>What is the proper way to make zsh the default shell in Cygwin? I installed it and can start it up by typing "zsh" at a bash prompt, but how do I make it take the place of the bash shell entirely?



Assuming you start bash now by clicking on the icon for cygwin.bat, simply
edit that file, and replace "bash" with "zsh". You'll need to review the
man page for zsh to see what are the appropriate flags to pass to get a
login shell. I don't have zsh installed otherwise I might give you a
clue. ;-)



Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX

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