tcsh problem on 2.0.1

[William Walker]

In article <567 at afsg.apple.com>, ron at afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax) writes:
> In article <989 at lychee.cs.utexas.edu> ckwang at cs.utexas.edu (Chih-kan Wang) writes:
> >I downloaded the compiled tcsh from aux.support.apple.com, put it in /bin,

<stuff deleted>

> > my .login file in home directory didn't get executed. But
> >if I changed back to csh, everything went back to normal.  Does anybody
> >have any similar experience?
> >
> >The configuration is:
> 
> >	tcsh 5.18 compiled for AUX 2.0
> 
> Well for starters you should probably grab version 5.20.02 from
> afsg.apple.com at 192.1.34.2.


as of 5.18 (at least), .login was a compile time option.


> To fix things so that tcsh will process your .login file you can trick
> the shell by creating a .tcshrc file and placing a line that reads:
> 
> 	source ~/.login

be careful here, if you are doing any stty's in your .login, 
running some things like pagers through a fork/exec'd shell
will give "stty: not a typewriter" messages.

bill.


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