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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A csh question ...
Message-ID: <7953@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 21 May 88 15:33:51 GMT
References: <636@fxgrp.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <636@fxgrp.UUCP> ljz%fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lloyd Zusman) writes:
>Can anyone explain why .login gets sourced *after* .cshrc?  I am constantly
>running into situations where I'd like .login to get sourced first, and I
>cannot see any good reasons for why it should get sourced after .cshrc.

You're right, and csh is wrong, but as you can imagine it cannot be
changed now.

>Are there any csh's out there that do this differently, perhaps if some
>command-line flag is set?

Not that I know of.  The BRL Bourne shell equivalent feature (ENV file)
does this right.