On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote: > I would like to have on my Windoze desktop an Icon for zsh running under > Cygwin... > [snip] > Zsh considers itself a login shell iff it is called under a name > starting with a dash. > [snip] > Another possibility would be to execute a shell script using bash and in > this script do an > > exec -a -zsh zsh -I > > But maybe someone knows a better way to do this?
The latter sounds like the best solution. You could do it directly from the batch file by using bash -c 'exec -l /usr/bin/zsh -i' HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/