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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:11:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com>
To: David Banning <tracker@worldy.com>
Cc: FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bash doesn't recognize .profile when in X
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AFAIK Xterm and varieties dont use .profile - although I dont really use
X, so I could be wrong.

Cliff Rowley

- while (!asleep) { code(); }

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, David Banning wrote:

> I have this command in my .profile which allows me to do a "ls -lt" with
> just an "l";
> 
> l() { /bin/ls -lt $*; }			# less typing
> 
> that works find when not in X - but when I fire up my window manager
> (kde)
> it will not recognize the command.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> thanx
> 
> Dave Banning
> 
> 
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