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Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:02:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
To: Matthew Smith <matts AT bluesguitar DOT org>
cc: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: new package offering: zsh
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On Wed, 22 May 2002, Matthew Smith wrote:

> I'll vote "yes" for this, but I do have a question: have you dealt with
> binary/text issues specific to the windows platform in your port?

I know of one issue concerning loading of functions.  Is there another
you had in mind?  For the most part, zsh handles cr+lf as if it were lf
implicitly.  For loading functions, the code assumes a binary mode, ie:
the number of bytes reported by stat() of a file is the number of bytes
reported back from read() after reading in the whole file.  On a
filesystem mounted in textmode, this isn't always true and can cause the
function to not load.  I really feel this is a filesystem attribute
issue, but if it's annoying enough for people, I'll loosen the size
matching restrictions.  A workaround for now is to strip your functions
of all Carriage-Returns, thus only have linefeeds in the file. 

> cheers,
> -Matt
> 
> > Hi All,
> >   In doing porting work for another project, I ended up porting zsh (my
> > favorite shell) to Cygwin, so I might as well offer it as a package.  I
> > will be an active maintainer of zsh as I use this shell on a regular bases
> > on many systems.  Here's the setup.hint and all the URLs:

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
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