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From: mi@bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xterm ignores tcsh (?)
Date: 5 Oct 1995 03:06:25 GMT
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Some time ago (Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:05:08 GMT) honorable Mark Hannon, 
residing at mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au wrote:
|In article <44h6dj$kbf@news.bu.edu>,
|	mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) writes:
|>My login shell is tcsh. Whem X comes up (startx) all the xterms have
|>csh in them. The only ways to start tcsh in xterm are `-e login' or
|>`-e tcsh'. Thanks for any clue!
|>
|Make sure that you do a

|setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/tcsh

|before you startx.  You should be able to put that
|in your .tcshrc file.

Thanks! I already figured that. Now I'm wondering why does the default
.login have `setenv SHELL /bin/csh' in it? Removing that helped, and
seems to be a way cleaner solution. Thanks!
	-mi