re xdm and env vars in article aa haji haji sun fwr bv fin af mil writes hi i am using xdm on x r with ow and xview on sun s and sparcs running sunos prior to using xdm i used to set path and other environment variables like manpath helppath arch etc in my login file with xdm the login file doesn t get executed and therefore neither the olwm root window nor my applications know about these variables i always use the following in my t cshrc f login then source home login endif and in login setenv login so i don t need to set all environment variables in my cshrc but they get set if i login via xdm or xon xrsh rx and so on hope this helps bernward bernward averwald heinrichstr d dortmund voice fax e mail bernward moepi do open de b rcc de i think i need a lear jet
