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From: jmn@cancun.berkeley.edu (Jan Mark Noworolski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: .login and .cshrc differences
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Date: 10 Jul 90 15:50:34 GMT
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I used to think that this was a real neophyte type of question- but what
exactly belongs in the .login and .cshrc files respectively?

It seems that rsh only runs .cshrc, rcp gets confused with some .cshrc
contents. 

I want to make sure that my setenv's are in the right place, aliases, and
set path. I use a rsh to start up a remote xterm on a system I use and only
.cshrc gets run in this case. So does this mean my .login may as well be
empty and everything should be in my .cshrc?

As an example of a problem I've run into:
in my .cshrc (outside the 'if ($?prompt)' )
setenv DISPLAY `who am i | sed 's/.*(//' | sed 's/\..*//'`:0
would confuse rcp. After putting it into the 'if' rcp is fine.

Has anybody really nailed down what belongs where and when?

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