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From:	Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:	Re: .profile and xterm
Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:07:32 +0100
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* Ling F. Zhang (03-03-14 03:52 +0100)
> Just starting to play with cygwin.  I edited my
> .profile to do some nice aliases, setting PATH and
> bashprompt...
> but I realize that as soon as I start a terminal using
> xterm (I am using exceed as my Xserver, but shouldn't
> matter) all the alias are gone (such as ls=ls
> --color=auto, which is handy...), and I need to
> deliberately source .profile again...any fix???

Please read the man page - it will bring you enlightenment. The 
FILES-Section is - as always - at the bottom of the page.

By the way - reading from top to bottom won't harm: as you might have 
noticed: your question is not Cygwin related...

Thorsten
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