Re: Useful Features?

[J. P. <J....@Qu...>]

dpi said;
> Why sould one put the path-things in .cshrc? I thought, the value of
> PATH in a further shell is the same as in the login shell?

There are a number of situations where shells are not started
from a login shell and so they can't inherit the PATH. The most
common of these occurs when using remsh (rsh), where a correct path
on the remote machine may be essential. There might also be problems
in some X11 environments etc.

I believe that just about everyone recommends placing vital
environment variables in .(t)cshrc. The way I look at it is
that .login only performs things that are required once per login 
(like checking mail, launching processes etc.) but the rc file sets
up everything that is required for *every* invocation of that shell
(The rc file should not write to STDOUT however).
Likewise this is where the module calls should go too.

John P.