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From: wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: newgrp problems
Message-ID: <1869@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 3 Jan 90 20:55:04 GMT
References: <319@cmsfl>
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In article <319@cmsfl> nigel@cmsfl@labtam.oz (nigel) writes:
> The problem in a nut|sea shell is that after I have done a newgrp
> I lose the history capability of csh.

Yep. Bug in csh, for some reason it doesn't think that it is
a login shell any more.  I don't see any good reason why it should
happen this way.

Try:

	exec csh -i

as a work around.  And complain to your local NCR people to
get a problem report submitted on it.


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	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM