starting up a shell

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Thu Jan 4 11:38:01 AEST 1990


In article <1990Jan3.133233.24427 at granite.cr.bull.com>, freedman at granite.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman) writes:
> 
>    I want to start up a shell (ksh,sh,csh - all, any shell)
> but I want to give it a specially tailored environment. Ca
> I get the shell to look at something other than the satandard
> startups - .cshrc,.profile etc when the shell starts?

For the ksh you can set the environment variable ENV to point to the
startup file you want.


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