Making zsh the default

[Virginia Mann]

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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