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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Diff between set and setenv
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Date: 25 Apr 89 20:47:48 GMT
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In article <2363@solo11.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>leein@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>\2. What variables should go to .login only, and what variables should 
>\   go to .cshrc only?
>
>.login: variables you only want to set ONCE (typically environment variables)
>	- setenv PATH $HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin
>.cshrc: variables you want to set in EACH invocation
>	- set history = 50

Note that if you work in a networked environment it may be necessary
to put just about everything into .cshrc.  If you use rsh to execute
commands on other hosts, only the .cshrc will be run, and not the
.login.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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