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- From: kk@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Konstantinos Konstantinides)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: ksh and HP Console?
- Message-ID: <63300091@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 22:15:57 GMT
- References: <GHENNIGA.92Aug18125155@ampere.ampere>
- Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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- In comp.sys.hp, ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
-
- >
- > No flames for what might be a dumb question, but, why is it that
- > when I log in to the console and then start a terminal, by clicking the
- > terminal icon under HP VUE, it doesn't appear to read my .kshrc or my
- > .profile, even though it does start up in the Korn Shell? The "Console"
- > terminal window reads everything OK but any subsequent terminal I start,
- > whether it be by clicking the icon or manually via the hpterm executable
- > fails to set my environment properly by reading these files.
- >
- > I appreciate any help!
- > Gary Hennigan
- > (ghenniga@NMSU.Edu)
-
- Vue does not read your .profile (except for the Console window
- which I believe is an hpterm created with the -l option).
-
- Solution: edit your $HOME/.vueprofile and put everything you have
- in your .profile, except terminal related (like ssty) control commands.
-
- KK
-