Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: login(1) initializes ME variable Message-ID: <4560@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 15:59:57 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4560 Posted: Tue Oct 30 15:59:57 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Oct-84 15:59:57 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 7 Login(1) has been changed to initialize the ME environment variable. The immediate reason is for some shell command-usage experiments, although it may prove useful in general since at present everyone's .profile contains an explicit initialization for ME. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry