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From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
Subject: Re: xterm ignores tcsh (?)
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:05:08 GMT
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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.

/mark
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