Re: Failure to execute .profile under AIX 5.2


William R. Mattil wrote:
... I was accessing these machines from a laptop
M$oft :( and using Exceed 7.X and my desktop PC has an older version of
Exceed that does not exhibit this behavior.

my original access was "rexec xterm -fn 10x20 -bg darkblue -fg yellow
-cr red -display @a:0.0"

changing the rexec to telnet or rsh behaves differently, as those will
execute the .profile .... except the last bit which is "set -o emacs"
which is blissfully ignored. Which was the whole point of doing this
anyway... argh! I hate windows.

Have you tried the '-ls' flag with 'xterm' command?

<quote from xterm manpage>
-ls Indicates that the shell that is started in the xterm window is a
login
shell (in other words, the first character of the ArgumentVector
parameter is a
dash, indicating to the shell that it should read the user's .login or
..profile
file).
</quote>

Tao

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