From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.12]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <75618>; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:24:17 -0500 Received: from user-vcaun21.dsl.mindspring.com ([216.175.92.65] helo=rakitzis.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16bPvy-0006T2-00; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:44:39 -0800 Received: (from byron@localhost) by rakitzis.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id g1EHi5I04374; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:44:05 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:44:05 -0500 From: Byron Rakitzis Message-Id: <200202141744.g1EHi5I04374@rakitzis.com> To: pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: non login "rc" needs customized environment This behavior with rsh has always been a problem -- csh gets around it with .cshrc, and I wonder if some similar solution might be necessary for backward compatability. I love the SHLVL hack, but if you put it in place, then rc will now process .rcrc differently across different versions of the shell, and I'd prefer some backward compatability if at all possible. I think it's a good topic for discussion though. Byron.