A csh question ...

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <636 at fxgrp.UUCP> ljz%fx.com at ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lloyd Zusman) writes:
>Can anyone explain why .login gets sourced *after* .cshrc?  I am constantly
>running into situations where I'd like .login to get sourced first, and I
>cannot see any good reasons for why it should get sourced after .cshrc.

You're right, and csh is wrong, but as you can imagine it cannot be
changed now.

>Are there any csh's out there that do this differently, perhaps if some
>command-line flag is set?

Not that I know of.  The BRL Bourne shell equivalent feature (ENV file)
does this right.