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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: VMS: logicals  UNIX: links, but...
Message-ID: <1008@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 03:52:38 GMT
References: <475@caldwr.UUCP> <810036@hpsemc.HP.COM> <1002@quintus.UUCP> <1604@blake.acs.washington.edu> <10058@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <10058@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1604@blake.acs.washington.edu> mtsu@blake.acs.washington.edu (Montana State) writes:
>>There isn't any easy way for me to force a user to execute a startup
>>script that sets up all of the environment variables for him.  
>
>It's called /etc/profile.

The method I suggested (hacking /etc/gettytab) is a BSD-ism.
The method Doug Gwyn suggests is a SysV-ism, not available on this
copy of SunOS 3.5, but obviously the right way to go.