RE: zsh for win32 - installation of zshrc

[Amol Deshpande <amold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: 	Bart Schaefer[SMTP:schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, September 15, 1998 10:18 AM
> To: 	ZShell Users List
> Cc: 	amol@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 	Re: zsh for win32 - installation of zshrc
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> I don't have windows running at home, but yesterday I installed zsh.exe
> on an NT machine at work.  I created a d:\etc (d: being the boot drive on
> that machine) and put a zshenv file in it, and lo, zsh reads it.  So now
> the setting of TERM=vt100 and adding the gnu-win32 bin to the path and so
> on is in d:\etc\zshenv, and every user on that NT box gets it if they
> start zsh.  (I also put in HOME=$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH; what was the reason
> for not defaulting $HOME from this on NT 4+ ?)
> 
each user is guaranteed to get a different $USERPROFILE, while I don't think
the $HOMEPATH changes unless you specifically set it for each user. not very
useful if you don't know in advance the usernames of everyone who may log
in.

-amol

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