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From: Byron Rakitzis <byron>
To: rc
Subject: rc + Xwindows
Message-Id: <91Aug26.222252cdt.22533@archone.tamu.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1991 22:22:50 -0500

I should know a thing or two about rc with X, since I use it just about
1/2 of my waking hours (that's scary).

What do I do? I run rc -l in all my windows. Do I notice the slowdown?
No way! Let's see....

; time rc -l /dev/null
        0.5 real         0.1 user         0.3 sys  

That's not bad, but then again my .rcrc is not that extravagant in the
first place. I execute a single globally-available script which tells me
the machine type of my host, stty, and then I set variables and functions.
Oh, I also run "msgs" to see if there are any new system messages.

I could easily put in a 'tty' command, or set up $history to be something
involving $pid in this file, and it would work great with X.

Is there really a reason to have *another* "rc -l"-like mechanism?