A csh question ...

[Lloyd Zusman]

A question concerning csh:

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.

I end up doing things like the following hack to get around this:

    # This resides at the top of a hypothetical .cshrc file ...

    if (! ${?FIRST_TIME_THROUGH}) then
    	setenv FIRST_TIME_THROUGH
    	# do all sorts of startup stuff that I would prefer to put
    	# into .login if it were only sourced before .cshrc
    endif

    ...

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

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