Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpsemc!gph From: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Troutfishing in America) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: A csh question ... Message-ID: <810003@hpsemc.HP.COM> Date: 3 Jun 88 19:07:16 GMT Article-I.D.: hpsemc.810003 References: <636@fxgrp.UUCP> Organization: HP Technology Access Center, Cupertino, CA Lines: 16 Lloyd Zusman writes: -->Are there any csh's out there that do this differently, perhaps if some -->command-line flag is set? ---------- Lloyd, I think you have a very good point. It's interesting that the new Korn shell, which I view as an improvement over csh, first executes .profile, and then executes .kshrc. .kshrc is executed with each invocation of a ksh. This is exactly the scenario you want for your csh. I use ksh, and this way is quite satisfactory.