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From: tim@appenzell.cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen)
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Subject: Re: Should login xterms show /etc/motd?
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Date: 24 Jul 90 17:47:50 GMT
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In article <1990Jul18.200754.13129@cs.umn.edu> brsmith@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith) writes:
>I've got a crude hack set up in /etc/.login (sourced before ~/.cshrc
>and ~/.login) right now - if "WINDOWID" is set it cats /etc/motd.
>
>Any better ideas?

Try out the xlogin program.  I was posted to comp.sources.x recently.
You can also pick it up via anonymous ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu.
xlogin handles /etc/motd, among other things.

Hope this helps,  ...Tim
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