Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20030314025219.30478.qmail@web14208.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:52:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Ling F. Zhang" Reply-To: lingfengz@yahoo.com Subject: .profile and xterm To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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??? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/