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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: starting up a shell
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.003801.12324@virtech.uucp>
Date: 4 Jan 90 00:38:01 GMT
References: <1990Jan3.133233.24427@granite.cr.bull.com>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <1990Jan3.133233.24427@granite.cr.bull.com>, freedman@granite.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman) writes:
> 
>    I want to start up a shell (ksh,sh,csh - all, any shell)
> but I want to give it a specially tailored environment. Ca
> I get the shell to look at something other than the satandard
> startups - .cshrc,.profile etc when the shell starts?

For the ksh you can set the environment variable ENV to point to the
startup file you want.


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