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From: ded@aplvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: A shell by any other name...
Message-ID: <754@aplvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Sep-84 10:44:33 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  8 10:44:33 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Sep-84 08:36:51 EDT
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD
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Occasionally I like to use the Bourne shell interactively. 
On these occasions I would like the sh to read ".profile"
automatically so my prompt can be set, etc.  The documentation 
implies that "sh -" should do it for me...but it doesn't.
True, I can execute "sh", then ". .profile" once
the "$" prompt appears (and I do), but still, but still...

Is there any way to accomplish the above other than 
by using the Bourne shell as my login shell?

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					Don Davis
					JHU/APL
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