Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-27 Thread Vidiot
>Either that or you are just hitting "Reply" instead of "Reply-All". Further >discussion of this is OT for this list though so if you have further comments >that you'd like to share, you'll need to follow-up on the cygwin-talk list. >Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com Corr

Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 05/27/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:57:36AM -0500, Vidiot wrote: >> >>There is nothing wrong with this mail list, although it may not conform to >> >>your personal preference. This list does not dictate to the sender where >> >>replies will go. It leaves that u

Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:57:36AM -0500, Vidiot wrote: >>There is nothing wrong with this mail list, although it may not conform to >>your personal preference. This list does not dictate to the sender where >>replies will go. It leaves that up to the sender. If posters want email >>to go to the

Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:25:24AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 05/26/2006, Vidiot wrote: >>[Can the listmaster fix the mail list so that it sends the reply back >>to the list and not to the poster? I sent the e-mail before >>remembering that this mail list gets it wrong, at least AFAIAC.

Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-26 Thread Vidiot
>There is nothing wrong with this mail list, although it may not conform to >your personal preference. This list does not dictate to the sender where >replies will go. It leaves that up to the sender. If posters want email >to go to the list rather than to them, it's simply a matter of setting t

Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 05/26/2006, Vidiot wrote: [Can the listmaster fix the mail list so that it sends the reply back to the list and not to the poster? I sent the e-mail before remembering that this mail list gets it wrong, at least AFAIAC.] There is nothing wrong with this mail list, although it may not confo

Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-26 Thread Vidiot
IT WORKS!!! The original problem with the "-a 0" being a combined value was it. When I separated them, I get the echo into the log correct for the new variable names, but had a typo for for one of them in the actual command launch. Thanks for the pointer/tip. Onward and upward. MB -- e-mail:

Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-26 Thread Vidiot
[Can the listmaster fix the mail list so that it sends the reply back to the list and not to the poster? I sent the e-mail before remembering that this mail list gets it wrong, at least AFAIAC.] >Vidiot doesn't really state how zsh fails, so I'd really like more >details as to what he's seeing.

RE: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: On 26 May 2006 06:29, Vidiot wrote: But, if anyone has a clue as to why starting of a Windblows program from a Z-shell doesn't work, yet from a shell-script, it does, I'd certainly appreciate knowing. Well, isn't it going to be because sh and zsh are di

Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-26 Thread Vidiot
>I think that the problem is the difference between ZSH's parameter >expansion and sh's parameter expansion. I think that your $MUX gets >expanded into single parameter "-a 0", instead of two parameters "-a" >and "0", that you expect. I separated MUX into two separate variables. Believe it or not

RE: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 May 2006 06:29, Vidiot wrote: > But, if anyone has a clue as to why starting of a Windblows program from > a Z-shell doesn't work, yet from a shell-script, it does, I'd certainly > appreciate knowing. Well, isn't it going to be because sh and zsh are different shells with different syntax

Re: sh script works, zsh script doesn't

2006-05-25 Thread Vidiot
An added tidbit. I turned the LOG script into a Z-shell script by changing the first line to "#!/usr/bin/zsh" and tsreader started just fine. It is the main Z-shell script that is having trouble starting tsreader and I have no clue why. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]