From: Ben Cox (thoth@uiuc.edu)
Date: 06/22/92


From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Subject: Re: Bash question
Date: 22 Jun 1992 21:07:45 GMT

satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru) writes:

>What's the option to bash that will cause it to read my .profile?
>bash in the xterms doesn't read the file nor does it inherit my
>login shell's environment. I have to do a source .profile every
>time I start an xterm.

If you invoke xterm as "xterm -ls" then it will read your .profile.
Alternatively, you can put a line in your resources file (which will
be called either .Xdefaults or .Xresources; check your X configuration
for sure; I think the default is .Xresources but I changed mine to
.Xdefaults) that looks like this:

XTerm*loginShell: true

>Oh! And what is the option to GCC to generate 486 specific code?
>There was message on it a few days back. I forgot the option and
>the message has expired since then.

-m486