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From: ted@eslvcr.UUCP (Ted Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Use csh for vt's in AT+T Unix?
Summary: setenv SHELL /bin/csh
Message-ID: <201@eslvcr.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 90 19:28:24 GMT
References: <59@dynasys.UUCP>
Reply-To: ted@eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca (Ted Powell)
Organization: Entropy Limited, Vancouver, BC
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In article <59@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>I was wondering if there was anyway to use csh for the virtual
>terminals in AT+T Unix.  It uses sh by default, but I'd like to
>use csh on all of them.  I would rather it come up with csh so
>I wouldn't have to run csh on top of sh.  No use running something
>you don't use.  Thanx in advance.

Just be sure you set the environment variable SHELL to /bin/csh _before_
you fire up vtlmgr, so that it inherits it.

Various AT&T software packages add lines to a user's .profile when some
sort of add-user script is run, but ignore .login and .cshrc. For this
reason, I have my login shell configured as /bin/sh, and the tail end of
my .profile looks like this:

	SHELL=/bin/csh
	export SHELL

	. $HOME/.vtlmgrsetup
	. $HOME/.facesetup
	. $HOME/.olsetup	 #!@ Do not edit this line !@

	exec /bin/csh

When /bin/sh encounters the exec, it replaces itself with /bin/csh --
it doesn't hang around. Note that, for this reason, any lines in your
.profile following the exec will not be executed by /bin/sh. This can be
significant if you do a software install that appends lines to your
.profile (i.e. you have to move the exec to the end again).
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ted@eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca   ...!ubc-cs!van-bc!eslvcr!ted    (Ted Powell)