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From: rick@zeek.UUCP (Rick Wilhelm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: why no .kshrc file?
Keywords: ksh history sh csh
Message-ID: <262@zeek.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 21:12:40 GMT
Organization: Arthur Andersen & Co., Chicago, IL
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Yesterday, while trying to get xterm to run ksh with a startup file
(to set up the aliases, etc). I found out that there seems to be no way
to have ksh run a script file upon startup (a la csh and .cshrc).

So my questions are these:

1)  Is there a way to run ksh with a startup script and
	then turn things over to stdin and the $ prompt, etc.?

2)  If the answer to 1) is "yes" then "how do I do it?"

3)  If the answer to 1) if "no" then "why not?"  I understand that
	.cshrc is a BSDism, and thus could not have been adopted by sh.
	But why didn't ksh acquire this useful feature.

Thanks,

rick
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