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From: barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: why no .kshrc file?
Keywords: ksh history sh csh
Message-ID: <30996@news.Think.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 18:19:27 GMT
References: <262@zeek.UUCP> <1287@virtech.UUCP>
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In article <1287@virtech.UUCP> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <262@zeek.UUCP>, rick@zeek.UUCP (Rick Wilhelm) writes:
>> 1)  Is there a way to run ksh with a startup script and
>> 	then turn things over to stdin and the $ prompt, etc.?
>Yes.  place the name of the script into the $ENV environment variable
>and all sub-kshell will run it.

How do you arrange for $ENV to get set if the shell isn't a descendent
of a login shell?  For instance, shells started by "rsh" aren't login
shells.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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