why no .kshrc file?

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <262 at zeek.UUCP>, rick at zeek.UUCP (Rick Wilhelm) writes:
> 1)  Is there a way to run ksh with a startup script and
> 	then turn things over to stdin and the $ prompt, etc.?

Yes.  place the name of the script into the $ENV environment variable
and all sub-kshell will run it.

I usually place all of my shell functions and aliases into a ".ksh.profile"
and include the following code in my .profile:

	ENV=$HOME/.ksh.profile
	export ENV
	. $ENV


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