Re: Raggle

[Pia Mikeal]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Micah Cowan wrote:
>
> That's part of it, my .cshrc contains:
>
> if ($TERM == "screen") then
> alias precmd    'printf "\033%s%s %s\033\\" "k" "tcsh" "[$HOST]"'
> alias postcmd   'printf "\033%s%s %s %s\033\\" "k" "\!#:0" "\!#:$" "[$HOST]"'
> endif
>
> I'm just wondering why the shell sees the invocation of those commands. 
> Shouldn't alpine just be "like another shell"?

No, because alpine is not another csh shell. csh, or even tcsh or other 
C-shells that look for .cshrc are the only commands/programs that will 
read your cshrc file upon startup like that.

Pia Mikeal
System Administrator
Markey Center for Structural Biology
Purdue University
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