starting up a shell

[Maarten Litmaath]

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?

csh:
	csh -fc 'source startupfile; command'

sh:
	.profile isn't executed at all
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  Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:  maart at cs.vu.nl,  uunet!mcsun!botter!maart