* 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 -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- 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/