Questions from a new user (SUMMARY)

[Gary S. Trujillo]

In article <10504 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> cjc at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[rs]) writes:
|In article <226 at ssbn.WLK.COM>, bill at ssbn.UUCP writes:
|Referring to ksh history files with unique names...
|> 
|> Not to be a nit picker, but how do you get rid of them when you log out?
|
|Since .profile is only read when logging in, not with every invocation -
|that's what ENV is for, put something like this in your .profile:
|
|	HISTFILE=$HOME/.kshistory$$
|	/bin/ksh
|	rm .kshistory$$

Well, this suggestion takes care of the problem, but at the expense of an
extra process per window (since there's a shell waiting around for the
/bin/ksh to die).  So it takes an extra slot in the process table, but
maybe it doesn't matter that much since the extra shells are sharing text
space, and I assume their data space is swappable.  Opinions?  Emmet?
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